Increasing a PS/2 mouse's polling/refresh/sample rate in 64-bit Win7

Britton30 said:

The shot you posted is Logitech's mouse ware, not Windows. Currently unless it is a high dollar mouse, all we have to work with is a Windows PnP mouse driver and has no sample rate settings.

The screenshot is not from my PC. I just got it somewhere in the internet. It is just to illustrate how to edit a PS/2 mouse's sample rate back in Windows XP.

Britton30 said:

I suspect you may be able too with software form the mouse's maker.

My mouse (a typical mouse with a middle click, scrolling button) didn't come with software from the manufacturer back in Windows XP (advertised as plug-and-play), but the generic installed-by-Windows drivers still allowed me to edit the sampling rate.

What about hidden tweaks/settings that I could do to edit the sampling rate?

Britton30 said:

why not get a USB optical mouse? I have a cheap Logitech M214, 2.4GHz and works fine.

My desktop PC has a PS/2 mouse port, and using the mouse PS/2 port instead of the USB port will save me one extra USB port.

Britton30 said:

You must have had Microsoft's Mouswware or Logitech's. I had XP for years and had no sampling setting.

USB mice don't have sampling settings in either Windows XP or Windows 7 (you need a third-party program to tweak sampling settings with USB mice). I have not used or installed Microsoft Mouseware or Logitech mouse and drivers back in Windows XP, and with Windows 7.

Also, every PS/2 mouse I've tried in Windows XP (I've also used XP for years) that uses default installed-by-Windows drivers has a sampling setting, which made me wonder why this setting was removed in Device Manager in Windows 7.

Britton30 said:

Sorry I have no answer. My PC has no PS/2 mouse port for me too look around for the setting.

That's fine. Thanks for replying. Let me know in this thread, if you get some info about this.