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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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I created a suggestion "make the sermouse-driver an optional feature (not installed by default) - or remove it entirely" in the MS Feedback App.
Its obiously a very minor problem - no one upvoted yet ;D
(And i have to admit: i think its bad behaviour for a device to send data before an application on the host requests data)
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.
How can we attract attention to this stinking pile of ****?
