Microsoft Touch Mouse does not work with Visual Studio 2010 SP1

Posted by Saurabh-Gupta on 12/27/2011 at 2:00 AM

The gestures don't work with any app running under Administrator. I run a lot of apps under admin privileges (VS 2010 being one) and this is a major letdown. Why this wasn't tested and fixed before release is beyond me.

Posted by Darrel Schreyer on 10/23/2011 at 6:31 AM

I can confirm that this is only an issue when VS2010 is running as Administrator. If it runs under the logged on user the mouse works fine.

Posted by Ben Randall on 8/19/2011 at 9:15 PM

I've confirmed that the workaround that Tad provided works on my machine as well. Hoping that they will look into resolving this issue.

Posted by MS-Moderator10 [Feedback Moderator] on 8/4/2011 at 12:18 AM

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Posted by TadAnderson on 8/3/2011 at 6:34 PM

OK, so I gave it one more try on a third laptop. I did not have IntelliPoint 8.15 64-bit for Windows 7 on it. It installed with just the drivers. It worked in VS, but no gestures. I downloaded IntelliPoint 8.15 64-bit for Windows 7 and it gave me the gestures and VS stopped working.

I repeated that on my other laptop by uninstalling IntelliPoint and the other mouse drivers. Just allowing the USB to get its drivers installed allowed me to scrollin VS, but no other getures work without IntelliPoint 8.15 64-bit for Windows 7 on it. As soon as I installed I got the gestures but VS stops working.

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Posted by TadAnderson on 8/4/2011 at 5:37 AM

UPDATE 8/4/2010- In order to resolve the issue of not running in Visual Studio 2010 you must run C:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliPoint with elevated permissions. Right click on it, open properties, go to the compatibility tab and select Run this program as administrator.

What clued me in was that it did not work with the event viewer either, which was running elevated privileges also.

Posted by TadAnderson on 8/4/2011 at 5:42 AM

That should have been

In order to resolve the issue of not running in Visual Studio 2010 you must run C:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliPoint\ipoint.exe with elevated permissions. Right click on it, open properties, go to the compatibility tab and select Run this program as administrator.
What clued me in was that it did not work with the event viewer either, which was running elevated privileges also.

Posted by Ryan P - Denver on 8/26/2011 at 6:57 PM

If you launch the program using Task Manager, set to launch at login for any user, and check the box to run with the highest priviledges, and change the option to run in Windows 7 compatibility mode this issue resolves itself. You may need to disable any other methods which may be launching iPoint.exe first. I found this in my HKLM registry's run section.

Posted by Eddy Malik on 10/4/2011 at 2:03 PM

Awesome! That worked. Thanks.

Microsoft Touch Mouse does not work with Visual Studio 2010 SP1 by TadAnderson