Ya, I know it's easy to remove it all completely. Just using Debian solves that too. I kind of wanted to copy the accel settings from windows 2000 over to XP. Weird I know, but it's just what I'm used to. I find with no accel, I can't seem to find the balance from it being too sensitive (fast) and having to pick up the mouse constantly to move it doing 180/360s and stuff.
We've all been plagued by the infamous mouse acceleration bug from windows 2000/xp/vista/7 and there's a myriad of fixes for it out there, some work better than others. They all deal with removing acceleration completely with anir's doing it completely at the driver level (win32k.sys) as discussed here:
One thing I haven't seen discussed as much is being able to modify the acceleration curve to your liking. Ever since windows XP came out, I had the same complaint about the acceleration as everybody, but none of the fixes did what I wanted. I found I preferred the predictable simple acceleration that Windows 2000 offered. I tried doing various things like copy win32k.sys from windows 2000 to XP but it didn't fix it and broke other things like copy/paste function. I eventually gave up and just stuck with Win2k in the beginning since everything compatible with XP was also compatible with Win2kPro. Well, now things have changed. I find myself dual booting just to play Quake2 with Win2k while using XP partition to run programs that wont in 2k. Now, it's even more problematic that new hardware and drivers aren't compatible anymore. I can't even do it on my laptop since driver support is non-existant for Win2k. It looks like I'll be forced to keep my old PC with outdated hardware if I choose to continue playing Q2 with the settings I prefer. Call me picky and stubborn but that's just how it is with me.
How the "ballistics" of the mouse acceleration are described better here while comparing the different OSes. I'm just hoping maybe by now somebody's figured out what the settings of Win2k mouse are and how I could copy them exactly to another OS like XP or even Debian or Ubuntu.
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