What could be causing.....

[Canti]

..... The system to crash upon using the middle mouse button? Well, basically I have Volumouse (control volume through mouse scroll-wheel) running in the background on my machine and a hacked up mouse with the scroll-wheel sticking out of the arcade machine so I can adjust the volume. However, whenever I press the mouse button in by accident, whatever is happening just stops showing on the monitor. You can still hear everything working but nothing will bring GameEx or the game it was running back onto the screen. It's all just black. Alt+Tab shows the running processes, but won't display any. GameEx needs to be terminated and then restarted in order to get back to normal.

I was unable to replicate this problem on another machine :S

[meepus]

  Canti said:

..... The system to crash upon using the middle mouse button? Well, basically I have Volumouse (control volume through mouse scroll-wheel) running in the background on my machine and a hacked up mouse with the scroll-wheel sticking out of the arcade machine so I can adjust the volume. However, whenever I press the mouse button in by accident, whatever is happening just stops showing on the monitor. You can still hear everything working but nothing will bring GameEx or the game it was running back onto the screen. It's all just black. Alt+Tab shows the running processes, but won't display any. GameEx needs to be terminated and then restarted in order to get back to normal.

I was unable to replicate this problem on another machine :S

What happens when you press the middle mouse button normally in Windows?

[bkenobi]

This is not an answer to your question...

Since you already hacked the mouse anyway, why not remove the wheel click button? It's easy to do (just pull the wheel off, remove the button, and reinstall the wheel. If the button is required to make the wheel work, you could always disconnect the button. The easiest way would be to simply cut the trace with an exacto knife. Or, since you don't want the button depressed, glue/tape a scrap of plastic/wood/paper/whatever is handy by the button to keep it from being depressed.

[Canti]

  meepus said:

What happens when you press the middle mouse button normally in Windows?

Nada.

  bkenobi said:

This is not an answer to your question...

Since you already hacked the mouse anyway, why not remove the wheel click button? It's easy to do (just pull the wheel off, remove the button, and reinstall the wheel. If the button is required to make the wheel work, you could always disconnect the button. The easiest way would be to simply cut the trace with an exacto knife. Or, since you don't want the button depressed, glue/tape a scrap of plastic/wood/paper/whatever is handy by the button to keep it from being depressed.

It's glued tightly in now . I left the click there in case I thought up a use for it later. It's rather annoying to change stuff because it's been shelled to hide Windows so, I was wondering if anyone had any direct idea. If not, no problem I'll work it out in the mouse settings or something .

[bkenobi]

Well, ok. I guess I'll give this a shot. What kind of mouse are you using? If it's a Logitech or similar, it might have software that comes with it to define the action of the mouse. These are usually/sometimes run as a service, so they should work even when shelled. If you have some kind of software for the mouse like this, you can define the wheel click as 'no action' so that even if you click it, it shouldn't do anything. If your mouse didn't come with software like this, I've read that TweakUI might have a section that could disable things about the mouse (maybe the wheel click).

I had this problem a while back with a mouse that for whatever reason sent the middle click when you clicked left or right. That was REALLY annoying! I ended up just buying another mouse (actually, I destroyed ~10 mice till I found one I could work with). Speaking of which, anyone need a hacked ball mouse? I've got a bunch