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driver for the Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse?
Does anyone know where to find a driver for the Microsoft Basic Optical
Mouse? The Microsoft website does not seem to have one for it and just says it is not compatible with the intellipoint drivers it has on the website. My Windows 98SE installation does not seem to have a driver for it and using the standard PS/2 port mouse driver causes the optical mouse to malfunction. I cannot believe Microsoft does not have an adequate Windows 98 driver for its own basic optical mouse! Please help. -- Jeff McPherson Email address deliberately false to avoid spam Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free by AVG |
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driver for the Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse?
How old is the mouse? MS stopped supporting Windows 98SE a couple of years
ago, so they are not really interested on getting drivers to work on Windows 98SE. "Jeff" wrote in message ... Does anyone know where to find a driver for the Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse? The Microsoft website does not seem to have one for it and just says it is not compatible with the intellipoint drivers it has on the website. My Windows 98SE installation does not seem to have a driver for it and using the standard PS/2 port mouse driver causes the optical mouse to malfunction. I cannot believe Microsoft does not have an adequate Windows 98 driver for its own basic optical mouse! Please help. -- Jeff McPherson Email address deliberately false to avoid spam Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free by AVG |
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driver for the Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse?
Go into Safe Mode, remove the mouse(s) found there, restart and let Windows
reinstall. If it still doesn't work, give up on the Optical mouse. Trying to pin the "cause" or "fault" or "blame" on any particular component, hardware or software, is futile. It's a total gestalt thing--it works or it doesn't (though resetting ESCD in BIOS might prove useful--tells BIOS to reassign hardware resources.) -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP for Win9x "Jeff" wrote in message ... Does anyone know where to find a driver for the Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse? The Microsoft website does not seem to have one for it and just says it is not compatible with the intellipoint drivers it has on the website. My Windows 98SE installation does not seem to have a driver for it and using the standard PS/2 port mouse driver causes the optical mouse to malfunction. I cannot believe Microsoft does not have an adequate Windows 98 driver for its own basic optical mouse! Please help. -- Jeff McPherson Email address deliberately false to avoid spam Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free by AVG |
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driver for the Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse?
Jeff - go to Logitech's website and download their software for their
optical wheel mouse. I also have the Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse and found that Microsoft does not support it. I tried using it with Win98 1st edition and had no wheel function. Since I have a Logitech optical wheel mouse and the CD that came with it, I installed MouseWare 9.76 for the Basic Optical Mouse and it works like a charm. Win98 sees it as a Logitech Compatible Mouse PS/2 (I'm using the PS/2 port). I now have a control panel with full mouse options, and the wheel scrolls properly. Hope this helps. -jp |
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driver for the Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse?
Thank you. I'll try it.
-- Jeff McPherson Email address deliberately false to avoid spam Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free by AVG "jp" wrote in message om... Jeff - go to Logitech's website and download their software for their optical wheel mouse. I also have the Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse and found that Microsoft does not support it. I tried using it with Win98 1st edition and had no wheel function. Since I have a Logitech optical wheel mouse and the CD that came with it, I installed MouseWare 9.76 for the Basic Optical Mouse and it works like a charm. Win98 sees it as a Logitech Compatible Mouse PS/2 (I'm using the PS/2 port). I now have a control panel with full mouse options, and the wheel scrolls properly. Hope this helps. -jp |
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driver for the Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse?
Just to let you know, your suggestion worked great. Thank you very much.
-- Jeff McPherson Email address deliberately false to avoid spam Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free by AVG "jp" wrote in message om... Jeff - go to Logitech's website and download their software for their optical wheel mouse. I also have the Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse and found that Microsoft does not support it. I tried using it with Win98 1st edition and had no wheel function. Since I have a Logitech optical wheel mouse and the CD that came with it, I installed MouseWare 9.76 for the Basic Optical Mouse and it works like a charm. Win98 sees it as a Logitech Compatible Mouse PS/2 (I'm using the PS/2 port). I now have a control panel with full mouse options, and the wheel scrolls properly. Hope this helps. -jp |
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