Re: What PC hardware diagnostic stress-testing freeware can you recommend?

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 03:58:07 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder wrote:

> The mouse is a USB optical mouse, which is so worn that whatever
> manufacturer was printed on the outside is long gone, but the "Mouse
> Properties" in the control panel says the manufacturer is Microsoft
> and that it's an "HID-compliant mouse".
> o Win+R > control main.cpl > Hardware > Properties
> But it's easier to just remember this instead:
> o Win+R > control mouse
> [I strive to do everything from the Win+R menu that I can.]
> 
> Looking at the same info in the Device Manager for the mouse:
> Win+R > devmgmt.msc 
> I noticed I have it set to be able to wake the computer but for the
> computer not to turn it off in low power situations, which is fine.
> 
> The Sieber USB Device Tree Viewer tells me something completely different
> though, as it says the "idVendor" is Lenovo, and the iProduct Language 
> is "Lenovo USB Optical Mouse", which I didn't expect since the Device
> Manager said it's Microsoft.  Oh oh. Logitech also shows up, so maybe the
> USB tree view is "remembering" old devices since the app has been running
> for days on end. Let me kill & restart it after clearing out all the USB
> entries by running the Sieber "Device Cleanup" tool.
> 
> Nope. All three, Microsoft, Lenovo, and Logitech show up in the Sieber USB
> Device Tree Viewer for that port. Go figure.

So I plug in a mouse that says it's a "GE" mouse (who knew that GE made
mice?), and I clear out the old USB devices in the registry and I restart
the Sieber USB Tree View, and now it doesn't say Lenovo or Microsoft
anymore for that mouse.

It doesn't say GE or General Electric either. 
o It just says "USB Optical Mouse"

The Device Manager says "Microsoft Mouse" so I think that's what it must
say for all mice, AFAICT.

Funny thing is I pressed "View all Events" in teh device manager for the
mouse and it said "Add snap-in" whatever that is, and then after a minute
of that "Adding snap-in to console" stuff, it brought up the event viewer.
o <https://i.postimg.cc/mDCjtT7K/mousediag01.jpg>

But the events were just the plugin and plugout that I just did.
o What's this "Snap-in" stuff anyway?
  <https://kb.iu.edu/d/ajlv>
  Win+R > mmc > File > Add/Remove Snap-in > 
   (Jesus, there are a lot!)

Anyway, in the twenty or so minutes using this second mouse it hasn't hung
up so I suspect time will tell, but maybe that one particular mouse if
flaky (although it's got a good connection as Sieber would have told me if
it had disconnected momentarily).

Anyway, I think I need a new mouse. :)