>Well, in case anyone is listening, I found the solution on my own. It's not
>a problem with VPC. Rather it's a problem with a setting in the Logitech
>mouseware drivers I never ever touch.
>
>In the mouse properties dialog under Motion, there's a check box that says
>"Disable acceleration in games" which is checked by default. I just checked
>my old PC and it's checked as it is in my new PC. However, in the new PC it
>makes a difference when VPC is running. Clearly it thinks VPC is a "game"
>and was disabling the normal mouse motion as set by the driver.
>
>So, un-checking this in the settings restored the proper functionality to
>the mouse when in and out of VPC when VPC is running.
>
>Ta-Da!

> I've been trying to find out why my new machine is acting strangely with VPC.
> All the posts I've seen refer to the mouse running slowly in the GUEST OS
> but my situation is different. The mouse runs slower than normal in the HOST
> OS but only when VPC is selected or active.
>
> I have a new machine made up of a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R, Intel Q9550, 4GB
> Corsair Dominator DDR2 RAM, a Radeon 8750 video card and a Logitech mouse
> running on XP Pro SP3 completely updated as of today. All drivers are loaded
> and running fine (no errors in Event Viewer and all software installed so far
> runs fine). I have enabled hardware virtualization in the BIOS (also updated)
>
> When I start up VPC (2007 SP1) the control panel is active by default as
> it's got focus. As soon as it starts up, the mouse runs much slower than
> normal. If I click on the desktop, the mouse is fine. This happens without
> any guest OS even being started or created. It's just the VPC control panel
> running.
>
> Of course, when a guest is activated, the situation is the same and the
> mouse runs slow in the guest too which is similar to other posts but in my
> case the mouse is affected before a guest is even created. I have several
> guests made up of XP, Vista, Windows 7, etc. and the issue is present in all
> of them. However, it's not a GUEST OS issue, settings in the guest etc.,
> since it happens with ONLY the VPC control panel. Virtual Machine Additions
> are installed in all guests too though that's not the issue either.
>
> So does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be the issue here? I
> am moving off my old machine (Asus P4PE, Pentium 4 2.58GHz, 2GB RAM, a Radeon
> 9700 Pro video card and the same Logitech mouse on XP Pro SP3) where the
> mouse works perfectly in both Guest and Host OS.
>
> Thanks for the input!
>
> Jornadauser