How to enable scrolling in Visual Studio when it's run under admin privileges

Question

I'm the owner of a Microsoft touch mouse and like it a lot. However it seems that it stops working when I startup Visual Studio 2012 under admin privileges. I read somewhere that I also need to start ipoint.exe under admin rights but that doesn't seem to do the trick.

Anyone else has an idea?

Answer 1

You can use Per Salmi's method or if you want to just modify the ipoint.exe file you can do that as well:

1. Open file explorer to Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center folder (default: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center)
2. Right click ipoint.exe and choose Properties
3. Choose Compatibility tab
4. Check Run this program as an administrator

Reboot (or kill the ipoint.exe process and restart it) and it should now work in programs running as admin.

One caveat with this method: You'll need to run the MouseKeyboardCenter.exe as admin as well or it will hang. Do the same steps above on this file in the same directory.

Answer 2

I have solved this problem with the touch gestures in admin applications by creating a Task Scheduler activity.

First I removed the ordinary startup of IPoint.exe as it doesn't work for applications running as admin.

Use the Windows Task Scheduler and create a new activity with the following properties:

• Start at user login
• Action set to start application c:\Program Files\Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center\ipoint.exe
• Run with highest privilege

This will make the mouse touch gestures work in all applications running as a normal user and in admin privilege applications.