I have an iMac 27" and it takes so much time to move the mouse pointer from the upper left corner to the center of the screen to click my account entry on the login screen.
Isn't there a way to increase the mouse speed on the login screen?
(Also, I think I'll file a bug or suggestion for Apple to start Mac OS X with the mouse cursor centered rather than in the upper left corner.)
Best Answer
I'm fairly certain that you're not going to be able to do this without some sort of third party software. There are a few tweaks that can be made to the loginwindow app which is running before login, but modifying the mouse speed isn't one of them.
You might try USB Overdrive which says it's a device driver in addition to a preference pane. The speed setting you set in it may affect the device driver prior to login.
The other thing you could try is playing with this code or this code to create a daemon that could be run at boot time which would modify the mouse speed.
Good luck!