Re: Missing Mouse

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Gaz <gazter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Peter Andrews wrote:
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"Peter Andrews" <p.andrews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Win 98 my mouse has gone away. No symbol on the screen, settings look
OK,
control panel seems to think mouse is present - any ideas please.

Peter
plug it back in


It is!

Have you tried it on another PC to make sure the mouse isn't knackered?

It is a bit dramatic, but will work.
boot up with a win98se boot disk (make sure the disk has the 'scanreg'
command)

type scanreg /restore
restore it before the problem happened.
voila

Less drastic things to try -
go into the BIOS to see if the mouse is working (only helpful if the
BIOS actually uses the mouse).
or
disable the mouse port in BIOS, reboot, enable the mouse port in BIOS,
reboot, to see if it gets detected and the correct drivers installed.
.

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