[time-nuts] Serial port / Mouse issue (was mentioned in"Thunderbolt Monitor")

[Tom Van Baak]

>>  http://www.gpsmap.net/GarminHints.html#GPSR_ComputerMouse

David -- that particular "solution" does not work in many cases.

> Shortened URL: http://goo.gl/xFcSc

Sarah -- that solution also doesn't work in many cases. Read the entire 3 pages of frustrated comments that follow the so-called "solution" to the problem (the start value resets to 3).

All -- I've never seen a robust solution to the issue of rapid serial data on a Windows NT/XP/Vista/7 machine. It's not just GPS; any serial telemetry device from thermometer to frequency counter to time interval analyzer suffers the same fate. If any of you have a 100% workable solution please send it to me *off-line*. If I'm convinced it works, I'll post the one true solution here.

I realize there are a number of work-around hacks that sometimes work, or work for a while. My goal is a single action a windows user can perform that will then permanently prevent any and all future serial / PnP / USB GPS-like devices from being wrongly interpreted as a mouse for the life of the machine.

Thanks,
/tvb