Mouse settings not sticking

Weird one this.

We have a user who's actually right handed but wants the mouse to be left-handed for reasons known only to her. Well, I have tried changing the mouse settings in Control Panel and the Accessibilty Wizard. So the mouse settings do get changed but they DO NOT survive a reboot. I have even given her local admin access to the machine but still the changed settings do not survive a reboot. If I change the settings with my logon, the settings survive a reboot. But the moment she logs on, it's back to a right-handed mouse again. But not with her logon...

Any help is very welcome!

P.S. This female is some manager and a generally sarcastic person, otherwise I would told her to f off... Doesnt have a good image of IT in general either

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royal

Weird indeed.

1. Open regedit
2. Goto User Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse
3. Create a new REG_SZ (String Value)
4. Name it SwapMouseButtons
5. Set the value to 1 for swap

Export the file to a .reg file. Create a logon script for her (just do it local on her machine) and have it launch the .reg file on startup. You can make it silent as well by doing:

regedit /S C:\locationofreg.reg

It's a bandaid, but heck, it should work.

Essendon

Thanks for the information, Elan. Will give it a shot and post the results. BTW, is there anything that you dont know?

royal

Math

Essendon

royal, this is just to be sure of what I am doing. There is already a string value by the name of SwapMouseButtons and it's set to 0, so is it ok if I set it to 1? Or do I have to create another string value and remove the original one. Sounds obvious, but still wanted to be sure.

royal

Never tried it via the registry. Give it a try and let us know. You can always back up that entire registry folder via right-clicking on it and exporting it just to be safe.

Essendon

That works like a beauty, royal. But now this applies for all users, not just for her! Anyways, it works for her and that's all I care for. Your the man, royal.