# Photon detected as "Serial Mouse" **URL:** \ **Category:** Troubleshooting\ **Created:** [February 8, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-detected-as-serial-mouse/19874 "2016-02-08T19:40:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![peekay123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/peekay123/32/810_2.png) [@peekay123](https://community.particle.io/u/peekay123)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-detected-as-serial-mouse/19874/3 "2016-02-08T19:49:19Z")
@whizpop, take a look here: > [@Issues using serial debugging (Mouse moving)](https://community.particle.io/t/issues-using-serial-debugging-mouse-moving/1200/9): > > In terms of weird interactions / bugs, that’s pretty wild! slight_smile 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. … 😉 --- _[View the full topic](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-detected-as-serial-mouse/19874)._