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i have 2 problems:
first, often, when i close a vst gui via the x in the upper right corner Live minimizes to the taskbar

second, sometimes when i drag a vst knob for 3 or 4 seconds the gui of Live and the vst plugin freezes completely, sound keeps playing fine though.
When i let go of the mouse button, the vst window has popped under the Live window. As soon as i click on Live in the taskbar everything's back to normal

Is anyone else experiencing this or did i tweak my Win 7 to hell? (Have eg classic shell installed and did a few registry tweaks...)

Hi Housemusiclover,

do you use a Microsoft Intellipoint mouse? This unfortunately might cause problems sometimes. If so: uninstall the mouse-driver, the basic functionality of the mouse should not be affected.

Best,
Jörg

Thanks for the info but it's actually a Logitech LX8.
Uninstalling the mouse driver is definitely not an option...
Just remembered that i can switch between os and setpoint mouse implementation - will report back if this should fix it.

Didn't help...i never had these problems on XP.
Are you guys going to fix this?

bump

i have this problem too, (the plugin windows popping under). i also have a logitech mouse (mx revolution). too in love with the mouse to uninstall the drivers though. i'm also on W7/64.

any chance of a fix?

Glad this is not just me, its been driving me round the bend. I do not share your first problem but i get the freezing gui. I use an old logitech Mx700, there is no logitec mouseware for it so is just using windows drivers, i just use 3rd party software to enable the extra buttons to shortcuts called x-mouse.

I get it as well on win 7 x86, using a microsoft bluetooth mouse but I don't have intellipoint installed, just the native win7 drivers.

breaking news: Live 9 introduces mouse support, update now for only 149 Euro, no mousewheel support though...

first Share, now this, hhhmmmprghhh

at least the minimzing of Live itself can be prohibited with a small, handy tool called DeskPins...
http://users.forthnet.gr/pat/efotinis/p ... kpins.html

So i bought a new Logitech MX Performance mouse in the hope it would fix the problem as my old logitech mouse was just using standard windows drivers with no proper support as it was old & out of date.
It did not fix the issue of hte gui locking up.

Bump, still exists in 8.2

anyone in this thread try setting live to run in compatibility mode for 'Vista SP2' ?

cotdagoo wrote:anyone in this thread try setting live to run in compatibility mode for 'Vista SP2' ?

Not me, though I run it with "Run as administrator" or I get plugin authorisation failures.
Does running in compatibilty mode use another unlock?

indeed, it would require new auth...

unfortunately it does require another unlock.. (which is another great reason for switching to something like the motherboard to generate a hardware id for registration, but that topic was already beaten to death a few weeks ago.)

however, i suggested it to someone the other day, and the abes provided another unlock no problem, and it pretty much cured all his gui lag/issues in Win7 64bit.