After clean install mouse (driver?) has unwanted extra features

Hi everyone,

Switching to SSD as OS drive, I decided to do a new clean Windows7 professional SP1 install.
Now I have a mouse that has (new) features I can't disable in the mouse settings of the control panel:

• A LH mouse click is acknowledged with a short animation of a point turning into a widening circle;
• A long LH mouse click or short RH mouse click is acknowledged with a animated circle turning glowing blue;
• Shift, Ctrl, Alt, Win and Alt Gr keys are acknowledged with a yellow text popup window underneath the cursor.

I can't find any software installed that could be responsible for this, or at least I do not recognize any....
Nor is there anything in the mouse settings of the control panel that controls this behavior.
Has anyone of you an idea what is going on in my OS? I want at least an option to disable this behavior.

What brand, make and model of mouse is it?

I have 2 mouses connected:

1. A generic PS/2 Genius mouse
2. A Wacom USB (mouse + pen) tablet, model: ET-0405-U
   Driver: Wacom Technology, Corp. Tablet Service Version 6.0.5-7

HTH

Which reminds me, the "extra" features are only with the Wacom tablet......

Might be an indication where to find the culprit! Although the Wacom configuration I/F does not show any settings for these features.
I had this driver also on my previous install and had no problems of "extra" features...
Thanks for asking!

I'm betting when you re-installed the OS you left all your peripherals plugged in. In doing so either windows used it's generic drivers or found the drivers online during the update, which is causing the conflict, have two mice connected at the same time.

My question is; why have two mouse connected at the same time?

I have two mice connected because I do switch user and OS frequently (have a double boot XP/W7).
Sometimes the OS does not recognize the USB Wacom driver fast enough and then I can use the PS/2 mouse.

But even if Windows installed generic or otherwise found drivers, these must be somewhere configurable, wouldn't it??

Not necessarily, that's why you need to install/re-install drivers for all hardware after a(n) OS install. With the generic drivers, that's all you get is just the driver not the software. With the software it will allow you to configure hardware to how you like it setup.

Sorry if I'm still not getting it....
If generic/plain-vanilla USB mouse drivers were installed, I wouldn't have these extra features.
Other software should appear in the list of installed programs and I can't find there anything that relates to mouse S/W.....

How to proceed?

A spinning blue/green circle is just the default icon assigned to the mouse representation when the computer is "busy". the one with the arrow and circle is "working in the background". They have nothing to do with the drivers, they are W7. Apparently you had a theme or something loaded before that used different icons but what you are seeing now are the W7 defaults.

If you don't like them, then change them.
Go to Control Panel > Mouse ... click Pointers Tab
There under customize you can change the icons for "working in background" and "busy". ... all they really mean is the computer is working, it's supposed to be reassuring so you don't think it locked up on you.

@TrainableMan; that's not what is happening here.
As I said in my first post, these extra features are not related to the standard mouse animations.

These extra features are visual acknowledgements of mouse and keyboard actions which I like to disable.