I’ve owned a Logitech MX Revolution mouse for over a year now, and I use it with my laptop all of the time. One thing that has always bugged me, however, was that every time I restart my computer the mouse pointer speed (located in the Mouse properties in the Control Panel) is reset back to it’s default settings. The Touchpad mouse on my laptop moves extremely slow when the default settings are enabled, so I always have to change them to make the Touchpad usable.
I normally don’t restart my computer that often (once or twice a week maybe) so I never thought to investigate the issue further. Last weekend, however, I had some spare time so I actually decided to see if I could get it fixed. I knew the SetPoint software was to blame because the issue only occurred after I installed it, and when I went to look at the startup entries I noticed Logitech conveniently had two different items:
A little research turned up that the KHALMNPR.EXE startup item is used to “change [mouse] sensitivity on a per program level using [Logitech's] profile manager inside SetPoint.” Well, my problem is in regards to the mouse sensitivity so I decided to click the Remove button in Windows Defender. After restarting the issue was gone!
If you’re a Logitech SetPoint user that is suffering from the same issue it is easy to fix. Here are some quick instructions for using either Windows Defender or MSConfig to make the change:
- If you have Windows Defender installed go to Tools -> Software Explorer and then find the Logitech entry that points to the KHALMNPR.EXE file. Click the Remove button.
- To use MSConfig press the Windows Key + R to get the Run dialog. In the box type msconfig and press Enter. Click the Startup tab and find the KHALMNPR.EXE entry, and uncheck the box next to it.
In terms of missing features I haven’t noticed any. I can still do everything that I did previously with my mouse, but now my pointer speed remains the same when I restart my computer!
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Alas, disabling KHALMNPR.EXE also resets all the special button assignments to default. Not per-application, but global assignments. I have the two thumb buttons configured as zoom in/zoom out. Killing KHALMNPR.EXE reverts those buttons to back/forward, SetPoint’s default setting.
Never had the problem with KHALMNPR.EXE and mouse sensitivity setting, though!
I have no problem with KHALMNPR.EXE, but I have not been eager to upgrade to the latest and greatest because I know the version I am using works [just say no to auto-updates]. I am using 3.0.104 of Setpoint and the driver. As I said I have not had any issues with this version, but I have heard of issues with the newer versions, that’s why I have held back. Maybe if you experiment with different versions you will find a version that work the way you want.
I’m using the latest version of SetPoint with my VX Revolution Mouse, and I’m having no such problems. Maybe, this problems is specific to just MX Revolution.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I’ve had the exact same problem since I purchased my notebook in February of this year. I’ve researched the problem here and there but never figured out a definitive answer until today. I had to put a special link on my desktop so I could reset the speed of the touchpad each time I rebooted. Now I can delete the shortcut and hopefully have the same speed each time I reboot.
After searching around I know the problem is not specific to the MX Revolution. It’s possible that it could have something to do with Vista, but I don’t think that’s the case either. If you never adjust the mouse sensitivity in the Control Panel then you’ll never notice a difference.
Yay! I was keeping my fingers crossed that this would help at least one person out there.
This not only problem of Vista. I have the same problem with my x61 and XP platform.
Interesting. I thought it was only with Vista, but now that I look back I’ve never used my mouse in XP.
Thank you very much, I always wanted this problem to be fixed and wasting atleast half an hour each time after turning on the computer looking in trouble shoot & here and there and figuring out the setting for this problem. But till now I was looking in Mouse & Touch pad options. I thought I was missing something to be unticked in there. Thank you very much once again.
Ryan … another anonymous thanks for that tip … appreciate it !!!