Spaceball 5000 software doesn't allow control of the BEEP!

stevenhaggerty · Post by **stevenhaggerty** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:57 am

My IT dept load new software and I lost my ability to turb the beep on and off. Am I missing something?

Post by **jwick** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 4:59 am

Hello stevenhaggerty,

That is no longer an option in the 3DxWare GUI. The capability is still there though if you want to do some work. The beeps are controlled by a registry setting:
HKCU/software/3dconnexion/3dxware/Disable Beeps (a REG_SZ value)
Set this to 1 to disable the beeps. Set to 0 to have the beeps.
This can be done with two .reg files.
The driver has to be restarted after making this change.

Jim
3Dx Software Development

stevenhaggerty · Post by **stevenhaggerty** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:40 am

This is unfortunate since I work in an administrator controled environment which doesn't allow me to alter the registry. What can be done to put this feature back in?

Post by **jwick** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:59 am

You'd have to talk to 3Dx product marketing / your 3Dx sales folks.

stevenhaggerty · Post by **stevenhaggerty** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:02 am

The other issue I have is that the SPaceball 5000 beeps as each application windows that it supports is activated. This means quite a few beeps during the day is this the intended operation? Previous software the Hardware beeped only during logon or logout of windows.

Thanks
Steve

Post by **jwick** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:28 am

Hi Steve,

I believe the beeping is by design. It's quite annoying. I'd turn them off permanently or cut the wire <G>. None of the devices designed in the last 9 years have had beepers. I don't see how they are useful, especially since, it seems, all of our new devices have LEDs. The LEDs are a better way to see if the device is "on".

Jim
3Dx Software Development

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