On May 20, 9:05=A0am, Chris Bailey <likeireadt...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I'm having a problem with one of our Macs (MacBook Pro 2.16GHz, 2048M
> RAM, Mac OS X 104.11, IntelliPoint6.22and
IntelliType6.22,MicrosoftWirele=
ssOptical Desktop 1000). Last week, it came up with a "lowbattery" warning
=
for themouse. So the user replaced the batteries. But
> thedialogbox kept coming back up, no matter if he canceled it or told
> it to snooze for whatever period of time. I've seen this when the
> batteries get low, and usually restarting gets it to go away. But this
> time it kept coming back. So I wondered if maybe the new batteries were
> defective and he replaced them with another new set. That did not fix
> the problem.
>
> I got involved at this point. I checked theMicrosoftMousecontrol
> panel and it stated the batteries were fully charged. I hunted down and
> deleted the IntelliPoint preferences (such as
> com.microsoft.mouse.global.pref and com.microsoft.mouse.pref) and
> deleted them, then rebooted. The warnings kept coming up. So I
> uninstalled IntelliPoint (but left IntelliType installed to run the
> keyboard). But even that didn't stop the warnings. Finally,
> uninstalling IntelliType stopped the warnings.
>
> I made sure there were no remaining IntelliPoint or IntelliType
> preferences left, then reinstalled both. The warnings immediately
> started coming back. I had remembered that the warnings didn't go away
> until we'd uninstalled IntelliType, so we checked thebatterylevelof
> the keyboard using the control panel and it said it was fully charged.
> We replaced the batteries anyway and rebooted, but the warning keeps
> coming back. You can even uncheck the "warn me about this" box and the
> box keeps coming back up. You can tell it not to notify me for another
> day, and the box keeps popping up.
>
> It's extremely annoying and the only way I have to get rid of it is to
> uninstall IntelliType, which makes they keyboard not function
> correctly. Does anyone know how to fix this?
I'm having the exact same problem. The most annoying part is that the
Microsoft dialog keeps stealing focus from my other applications. Has
anyone found a solution to this? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
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