I Want Two Mice

hey all, I have a question that has been plaiging me for about 3 minutes and was wondering if ne 1 could answer me this, is it possible to have two mouse icons and hve them move freely on their own with two different mice? and if it is possible can ne1 tell me how i would go about doing this? i would be very greatful to you if you could help me with this (i jus got a new vid card that supports dual vga and i want to play games and work at the same time, lol

TY, mEcroneo

 

I have a twin monitor system You can play games and work by putting the game in a window on one and your work in a window on another monitor. One mouse will do both screens.
If you had two mice and cursors, which would have focus - i.e. be the active window? Two cursors will either not work, or not work well unless you run two copies of Windows. This runs so slowly that gaming is impossible. One mouse will establish focus and allow input to that program. Just set up your monitors side by side.

 

two mice

That's an interesting ideea!
I, for instance, would like to have a mouse and a digitizer pen attached to the same machine, so when I'm using photoshop I could work with the pen, and for other programs I could use the mouse.
Mmm...tempting,can it be done?

 

Mouse and trackball and three keyboards - whatever is easily done, just hook them up through a USB hub. Wifey uses the mouse/keyboard/graphics pad in Photoshop, But remember the computer will see this all as one input at a time.

 

Advice on picking that USB hub?

Anything in particular in the way of specs we should look for to get a good USB hub? I don't know anything about shopping for one.

Specifically, I'd like to connect both of my USB-cable printers to my main machine, and select the standard one for text and the photo-grade for pix. Advice? Do I actually have to use a hub if I have extra USB ports?