Mousekeys alternatives?

My battered optical mouse finally quit (is why I write so much right now, it
limits most of the other stuff I'm meant to be doing).

I put in MouseKeys but although I like the speed/acceleration/direction
control, I hate the bad ways it manages clicks and drags. I found NumPad
Mouse which gets those better, but really doesn't do the positional cotrol at
all well. Does anyone know of other things to try?

Also, if there is a way to use the Logitech driver's 'Smart Move' and
'HyperJump' with MouseKeys or similar tools, please tell me if you know it. I
suspect there isn't one though, the MouseKeys VXD's probably manipulate the
cursor control directly, it's probably not mediated by any part of a standard
mose driver. But I still hope it might be, because I discovered that I do
still need the standard driver installed, or MouseKeys will hang the system
fairly spectacularly when I try to move the cursor.

Apologies, this was the ONLY was to post to this group!



HELP!

Accidentally erased a folder and its multitude of subfolders with a
simpler folder and its two subfolders with the same name!

How to recover?

Using XCOPY in attempt to synchronize multiple systems, accidentally
overwrote a folder originally containing many, many subfolders and
replaced it with a folder of the same name and only its two
subfolders!

F: drive is the memory stick:

Only one file in the root folder needed to be updated. The bat file
contained this

XCOPY /D /E /C /Y F:\Folder\*.* C:\Folder\*.*

sadly, the F drive only had a single file I was trying to synchronize,
but the batch file overwrote/removing all the sufolders on the C
drive

The system is NOT being used until I get an answer from this group.

Need to know if there is someway to undo all this damage.

On 05/01/2011 03:48 PM, Robert Macy wrote:
Apologies, this was the ONLY was to post to this group!


You could have started a new thread you know


snip


Install this on another machine

http://www.piriform.com/recuva


then slave the drive to it or connect with a USB adaptor

On May 1, 1:51*pm, philo wrote:
On 05/01/2011 03:48 PM, Robert Macy wrote: Apologies, this was the ONLY was to post to this group!

You could have started a new thread you know

snip

Install this on another machine

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

then slave the drive to it or connect with a USB adaptor

Had to use MSIE and I tried to start a new thread 3 times ....nothing,
kept getting an error message with a note to contact google's cust
service

For some reason Opera wont even get me through to google's access?! of
groups on this machine.

however, it was possible to 'reply' and rename, again my apologies,
but this is an emergency!

thanks for the comment to download on a different machine! you're
right any change will overwrite onto the drive

will let you know.

On 05/01/2011 04:39 PM, Robert Macy wrote:
On May 1, 1:51 pm, wrote:
On 05/01/2011 03:48 PM, Robert Macy wrote: Apologies, this was the ONLY was to post to this group!

You could have started a new thread you know

snip

Install this on another machine

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

then slave the drive to it or connect with a USB adaptor

Had to use MSIE and I tried to start a new thread 3 times ....nothing,
kept getting an error message with a note to contact google's cust
service

For some reason Opera wont even get me through to google's access?! of
groups on this machine.

however, it was possible to 'reply' and rename, again my apologies,
but this is an emergency!

thanks for the comment to download on a different machine! you're
right any change will overwrite onto the drive

will let you know.


Ok

post back...and I understand the emergency thing...
no need to deal with one problem in other to get to the critical one...

Robert Macy wrote in news:dd1dd377-b658-4db8-a814-
:

Only one file in the root folder needed to be updated. The bat file
contained this

XCOPY /D /E /C /Y F:\Folder\*.* C:\Folder\*.*

sadly, the F drive only had a single file I was trying to synchronize,
but the batch file overwrote/removing all the sufolders on the C
drive


What else did you do? XCOPY alone can't do that, it would merge directories
of same name, not overwrite them. Files can overwrite, but you cannot
overwrite ten files with two files with one call to XCOPY, no matter how hard
you try.

(I tried to attach a small recovery tool, but that post failed, I think it's
impossible to sneak a binary into this group by any means worth trying).

Robert Macy wrote:

You could have started a new thread you know

Had to use MSIE and I tried to start a new thread 3 times
kept getting an error message with a note to contact google's
cust service

Why don't you use a proper usenet client and use news.aioe.org?

usenet over http is bad enough, but using google "groups" is lame.

thanks for the comment to download on a different machine!
you're right any change will overwrite onto the drive

Slaving the drive to another win-98 machine is a good idea. A really
good idea is if the other machine is also running win-98 AND NOT XP (any
NT-based OS likes to get really busy with any new drive connected to it
- and the last thing you need is for the OS to start getting busy with
that drive).

I'd look into Hiren's Boot CD. Lots of drive tools on it. I'd
personally just resort to using some of the norton tools (unerase, ndd,
etc).

As a last resort - Lost and Found. It can be found on Hiren's CD too.

One good tool I've found for recovering files when others fail is Easeus
Data Recovery Wizard. You might want to check it out.

Robert Macy wrote:
Apologies, this was the ONLY was to post to this group!



HELP!

Accidentally erased a folder and its multitude of subfolders with a
simpler folder and its two subfolders with the same name!

How to recover?

Using XCOPY in attempt to synchronize multiple systems, accidentally
overwrote a folder originally containing many, many subfolders and
replaced it with a folder of the same name and only its two
subfolders!

F: drive is the memory stick:

Only one file in the root folder needed to be updated. The bat file
contained this

XCOPY /D /E /C /Y F:\Folder\*.* C:\Folder\*.*

sadly, the F drive only had a single file I was trying to synchronize,
but the batch file overwrote/removing all the sufolders on the C
drive

The system is NOT being used until I get an answer from this group.

Need to know if there is someway to undo all this damage.

On May 1, 8:17*pm, "Bill in Co"
wrote:
One good tool I've found for recovering files when others fail is Easeus
Data Recovery Wizard. *You might want to check it out.



Robert Macy wrote:
Apologies, this was the ONLY was to post to this group!

HELP!

Accidentally erased a folder and its multitude of subfolders with a
simpler folder and its two subfolders with the same name!

How to recover?

Using XCOPY in attempt to synchronize multiple systems, accidentally
overwrote a folder originally containing many, many subfolders and
replaced it with a folder of the same name and only its two
subfolders!

F: drive is the memory stick:

Only one file in the root folder needed to be updated. The bat file
contained this

XCOPY /D /E /C /Y *F:\Folder\*.* *C:\Folder\*.*

sadly, the F drive only had a single file I was trying to synchronize,
but the batch file overwrote/removing all the sufolders on the C
drive

The system is NOT being used until I get an answer from this group.

Need to know if there is someway to undo all this damage.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

THANK YOU TO ALL! solved got so much back is ok now.

Again, apologies to Lostgallifreyan for pirating his mouse question,
but google would NOT let post a new thread, only reply.

Robert

Robert Macy wrote in news:69a4e0b4-47a1-41f8-a5eb-
:

Again, apologies to Lostgallifreyan for pirating his mouse question

No worries. I solved that for now anyway, using an RS232 drivern touchscreen.
I'm still interested in keyboard-driven mouse replacements though, as would
anyone be if their mouse breaks on a bank holiday weekend...