Windows detects USB GPS as Serial Ballpoint - please suggest permanent modification to prevent any serial mouse detection

Anonymous
2010-02-23T15:33:38+00:00

Using Win7 ultimate on a variety of machines, when I plug in a 'USB' GPS the system does two things: it installs the support for the USB-Serial device, and then it (using 'serenum' apparently) begins mistaking the GPS for a serial mouse, and 'detects' and installs the microsoft serial ballpoint.  I have editted /windows/inf/msmouse.inf, adding a line after line 28 (guessing at the syntax, copying from the alpha excludes)

ExcludeFromSelect.NTx86 = *PNP0F0C,*PNP0F08,*PNP0F09*PNP0F01,*PNP0F0A,*PNP0F1E

This does *NOT* do the trick.  The GPS is consistently being enumerated by the system as a "serial ballpoint mouse".

This has been reported by numerous people in numerous forums on numerous configurations over multiple windows versions.

When is Microsoft going to fix this?  This is not a GPS issue.  This is not a serial device issue.  This is not a USB issue.  This is, pure and simple, a Microsoft issue.

Removing the 'upperdrivers' entry for serenum might do the trick, but the registry keys are not writeable now in Win7.  Sweet.  Thanks, Microsoft.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-11-22T18:23:08+00:00

    This is incomprehensibly reprehensible. The bug was detected in 2000. Millions of people in industry have encountered it. Millions of man-hours and $$ where wasted finding workarounds and getting serial-to-Ethernet converters.

    It has been 14 FREAKING YEARS and we still encounter this problem. 

    This is absolutely contemptible.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-03-22T11:26:17+00:00

    AMAZING!!!!

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     Here's the fix:  Open Regedit. Navigate to

          HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SerMouse, and change the value "Start" from 3 to 4.  Reboot.

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    Work 100%

    Just test on 3 systems

    This is first realy working solution for this crazy mouse with beliewed from M$ balls!!!

    Thanks!!! Thanks!!! Thanks!!! Thanks!!! Thanks!!! Thanks!!! Thanks!!! Thanks!!! Thanks!!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-04-15T17:01:52+00:00

    This value is over written  to "3" by OS in time and Serial Mouse starts up! or on restart. This problem still exists FTDI and others need to take MS to task and fix this dinosaur bug!

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-04-20T10:28:21+00:00

    How can we attract attention to this stinking pile of ****?

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-04-20T11:27:26+00:00

    How can we attract attention to this stinking pile of ****? 

    How dare you are thinking M§ would imagine any seemingly random incoming data is NOT from their serial mouse?!?!? One time serial mouse - for eternity serial mouse, nothing else is possible for MS.

    This problem exists since there was a serial mouse and will probably exist in future, There where several workarounds for each windows version another, I had the pleasure to use them all (except winME). Only win10 got me, I bought a Multiplexer (Shipmodul) that registers properly to an USB-port and had no more problems. For any boat related stuff. Poorer are the industrial guys, but probably those or some of those multiplexers work there too.

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