I have previously reported sluggish mouse on Vista. The symptoms were 3-5x slower mouse cursor movement on screen. Another symptom was high CPU usage of wdm.exe, Windows Display Manager.
http://annoyances-resolved.blogspot.com/2009/09/windows-vista-annoyance-sluggish-cursor.html
Today, the same problem occurred. Sluggish mouse. Mouse by the way is the Microsoft model 3000 about three years old. Really works well, you can see it here: http://mouseforlaptop.org. That is, it works well when it is not sluggish.
The main symptom today was the same - sluggish mouse cursor. However, inspecting Windows Task Manager, the dwm.exe was not using extraordinary amounts of cpu time, and neither was any other process. Also, the computer did not come out of hibernate. The sluggish mouse appearance DID coincide with a large download (11000 items) of email from an IMAP server.
However, the latest solution, http://annoyances-resolved.blogspot.com/2009/11/sluggish-pointer-on-windows-vista-and.html
worked this time as well. All I needed to do is bring the laptop back to sleep (not hibernate) and bring it back up. Mouse sluggish no more!
If you had similar experiences, please let me know in your comments below!
AR
LogMeIn Plugin Crashes Firefox, Demands Upgrade, Upgrades In Wrong Directory
Now that is a handful.
Finally, I found a solution, I posted it on LogMeIn knowledge base forum, it looks like this:
I had version 1.000.526 or so of logmein for firefox. The new version was supposed to be 1.000.608.
I'm running Firefox 3.6.8 and I was prompted several times to install new logmein plugin. After doing so, it turns out (had to check extensively the file system for this) that:
*** logmein downloads and installs the new plugin files into a directory
xxxxxxxx.default\extensions\LogMeInClient@logmein.com\plugins\npRACtrl.dll
This is the directory on a faster disk where I moved my xxxxxxx.default firefox directory.
However, mozilla firefox 3.6.8 looks for the plugin in the directory
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\npRACtrl.dll
I had to go in and manually copy the new 608 npRACtrl.dll into the C:\... location above for the new plugin to be used and for the nagging to upgrade to stop... and for the firefox crashes to stop... looks like... for now.
Please advise how we can do upgrades in the future... without messing with the filesystem so much... and doing it the RIGHT way!
Thanks LogMeIn!
Oh, I'm posting this on http://annoyances-resolved.blogspot.com so you can add your solution in the comments there if you will!
Finally, I found a solution, I posted it on LogMeIn knowledge base forum, it looks like this:
I had version 1.000.526 or so of logmein for firefox. The new version was supposed to be 1.000.608.
I'm running Firefox 3.6.8 and I was prompted several times to install new logmein plugin. After doing so, it turns out (had to check extensively the file system for this) that:
*** logmein downloads and installs the new plugin files into a directory
xxxxxxxx.default\extensions\LogMeInClient@logmein.com\plugins\npRACtrl.dll
This is the directory on a faster disk where I moved my xxxxxxx.default firefox directory.
However, mozilla firefox 3.6.8 looks for the plugin in the directory
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\npRACtrl.dll
I had to go in and manually copy the new 608 npRACtrl.dll into the C:\... location above for the new plugin to be used and for the nagging to upgrade to stop... and for the firefox crashes to stop... looks like... for now.
Please advise how we can do upgrades in the future... without messing with the filesystem so much... and doing it the RIGHT way!
Thanks LogMeIn!
Oh, I'm posting this on http://annoyances-resolved.blogspot.com so you can add your solution in the comments there if you will!
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