I'm not sure what happened, but I did see similar problem (no virus as
well).  I couldn't remember what was it, but I certainly sure it was some
software.  Did you try to remove everything but only leave the very basic in
msconfig, and called up Ctrl-Alt-Del to end all but the two basic process?
If there is some sort of mouse ware or keyboard software installed, remove
them straight away, they cause nothing by problems.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 3:40 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Wacky mouse behaviour


> I'd be interested to know if anyone else has run across this situation:
>
> A customer running W98SE has had sudden bad behaviour from her mouse.
> Resting the pointer on any box with a drop-down option (say, like
msconfig)
> results in an uncontrollable scrolling of the drop-down contents.
>
> At first I thought this was a damaged mouse (a serial mouse) so I replaced
> it with a new PS2 mouse.  The same thing occurred.
>
> She has an up-to-date Norton AV but, just to make sure it wasn't a
gremlin,
> I ran a virus checker in DOS.  No bugs.
>
> So I rebooted into Safe mode - which removed the problem.
>

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