[HOWTO] - Increase your mouse's MAX speed...

[fryke]

No need, as that doesn't fix the Panther issue... Second: PathFinder is shareware, some kind of replacement for the Finder. You can also just use the Finder and let _it_ show you hidden files. Or the Terminal. But: MouseZoom was also mentioned above. The new version can be found here: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/mac/12205 ... (v2.1) and is said to work in 10.3.x, too - unless you've installed a third party mouse driver like USB Overdrive (which you probably haven't). MouseZoom is also free.

However: Do you guys really need accelerated mice? ;-) ... I think that's very windowssy and the bad mouse drivers are part of why I can't really work with Windows. They're too inaccurate, never the right speed... I'm a graphics pro and have to sometimes hit the pixels exactly. ;-)

[Darkshadow]

It's not so much of an issue as it was when OS X first came out. The mouse has been sped up a bit since then - it used to be waaay too slow. That's why I went looking for a way to speed it up in the first place.

[chevy]

I like my slightly accelerated mouse (low cost optical Compaq mouse bought in a RadioShack) on my 17" iMac, but I didn't go to 3 ! And I can still draw.

[bobw]

I see mouse scaling in the file NSGlobalDomain. In terminal type: defaults read NSGlobalDomain, and hit return. You can find mouse scaling in the results.