Thanks, I have found a way to identify if there is a USB mouse plugged in using a simple VBscript with Microsoft's WMI. Running a query of the pointing devices gives me the information if a USB mouse is plugged in or not. I am pretty sure if I run a service in the background it will work, but I am thinking that it will be hard on resources. I would really like to be able to trigger my script on the event of any USB device being plugged in or unplugged. Are there any WMI guru's out there?

does anybody know if there is a way to capture the Windows XP event of a USB mouse being plugged in or unplugged? I currently support a large school division, and we are going to be buying a large amount of computers with USB mice(Currently mice go missing on a regular basis). I want to be able to write some code that will log to a text file the time that that the usb mouse gets unplugged, does anybody know if this information can be pulled from XP( I am assumin ghtere is a way, as it makes a sound when I unplug the mouse), and using what coding language. Thanks Tech Coordinator