# Issues using serial debugging (Mouse moving)

**URL:** <https://community.particle.io/t/issues-using-serial-debugging-mouse-moving/1200>\
**Category:** Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [January 3, 2014, 4:04am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/issues-using-serial-debugging-mouse-moving/1200 "2014-01-03T04:04:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dave](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/dave/32/181_2.png) [@Dave](https://community.particle.io/u/Dave)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/issues-using-serial-debugging-mouse-moving/1200/9 "2014-02-28T15:28:12Z")

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In terms of weird interactions / bugs, that’s pretty wild! 🙂 This name “Microsoft Serial Ballpoint” is magic, because searching for that shows a lot of people having this same problem with USB serial devices:

The fix for this appears to be to disable Window’s support for crazy Serial mice entirely

##Warning! This fix involves editing your registry, make a restore point first!

###_I have wrecked machines by goofing up a registry edit, you should really make a restore point first._

in regedit:  
HKEY\_LOCAL\_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SerMouse  
and change the value “Start” from 3 (load on demand) to 4 (disabled)

more info here:  
[http://www.curioustech.net/xport.html](http://www.curioustech.net/xport.html)  
[http://support.microsoft.com/kb/103000](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/103000)

Thanks!  
David

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