have an older computer for the kids, mouse wasn't working (tried both serial & ps2). couldn't find my driver disk for any type of mouse so i downloaded what i thought would be a generic serial mouse driver from logitech on my own computer. took that and installed it on the kids computer (seemed to work fine and the computer wanted to reboot before the changes to mouse driver would take effect). restarted computer now both the keyboard and the mouse won't work. win95 seems to start up okay but then gets to the point where it tells me it can't detect a mouse, the screen is completely blank other than this message. nothing will work. what should i do now? i have the windows 95 disk, but not all the drivers (have monitor one, nothing for cd or mouse or keyboard - if there is even one for a keyboard). can i somehow get into the file that i just installed and remove it since this seems to have caused the keyboard not to work? if i need to reload win95 please provide detailed instructions - i'm at a complete loss with these things. thanks for any help! tj

It's a little late now but ... Plug & Play in the Win95 system is VERY poor. You can dig yourself a hole installing the wrong drivers. I don't know if it will help but I would boot up in safe mode and delete all references to the mouse and keyboard in the Device Manager.

thanks bart, but i'm a complete novice - how do i boot up in safe mode? tj

There are a couple ways Tracey. Holding down the ctrl key during the boot works on most systems. Or you can tap the f8 key continuously during the boot. This will get you a menu screen with 'Safe mode' as one of the options.

okay bear with me if you can stand it. i've done the f8 route & deleted everything that it set up when i was pretending to know what i was doing with the mouse drivers. computer now starts fine, keyboard back but still no mouse. can i just go buy a new mouse and install that? my computer has a serial port for the mouse, but i have an adapter. this seems to be the easiest solution for me - can i assume it should work fine with a new one & proper driver for it? thanks again! tj

But a serial port mouse. Don't try to use a PS2 mouse with Win 95. They're only $10 and you get the software.

And unless you buy a mouse that comes with an adapter, the chances are pretty good that the adapter won't work. There doesn't seem to be a standard for adapters. 'Normally' you shouldn't need to install a mouse driver.