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installing a new mouse
Name: Marion Date: February 27, 2000 at 15:43:14 Pacific
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I have a packard Bell 120 pentium, running with windows 95 and wanted to upgrade my 2 button mouse to a 3 button one. Have now tried 2 different mice and even with the new software nothing works. The last one I have tried used the APware plus software and everything installs OK until I try to change the pointer when it all freezes up. On installing the software I was asked to UNINSTALL the previous mouse... however couldn't find a way to do this, so wonder if this has anything to do with it all. I uninstalled the software, and the old mouse has worked ok.......
Name: DW Date: February 27, 2000 at 16:02:18 Pacific
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This link deals with a numbe of mouse issues, hope it helps
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Response Number 2
Name: Jim Clark Date: February 27, 2000 at 17:45:59 Pacific
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Go into Control Panel--->System Icon--->Device Manager and go down the list of devices and click on MOUSE, and Click on the Mouse Driver and Click the REMOVE button. The mouse pointer will freeze, don't worry about it. You just deleted the mouse driver. Hit the OFF button on your computer and reboot. Computer will go into SCANDISK. Let it scan your HD. Make sure your new mouse is attached. Put the driver disk in A or CDROM, whichever, or have your Win 95 Disk handy. Boot into Win 95 and let Win 95 autodetect the new mouse. Use the HAVE DISK function and let Windows search the disk in the appropriate drive for the right INF file. The INF file is the driver file needed for your new mouse. You may have to search the driver disk for the INF file or equivalent. Click OK, and let Windows install the new mouse driver. This should take care of it. The point is, you cannot adequately get a new device to work until you first delete out the old drivers for the old device. If this routine does not work, then use ADD/REMOVE Hardware in Control Panel.
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Response Number 3
Name: Terri Date: February 27, 2000 at 18:38:00 Pacific
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There is an easier way to do this without losing your mouse. Got to control panel/mouse/change. Now change the mouse to the one you want. I will ask you for the disk and you can install it from here. This way yo won't lose the use of the mouse. I know some people can't function with the tabs and up downs. Now after you have installed the new mouse go to control panel/systems/mouse. You will have an exclamaiton point here. Only because you now have two mice installed. Highlight and remove the one you don't want to use. Now rebooting your computer should put things exactly the way you want them to be. Terri
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