This is for Ian, but I did reply to Jun Qian's post. Ill pop in on this - I
too have had such behavior with the mouse, and unfortunately also don't
remember what it was that fixed it. It was not a hardware problem, but
drivers. Check your video driver in particular. Have you tried booting in
safe mode to see if the mouse behaves the same.

To Jun Qian: we both need to record how we solve problems so that we may
remember how to fix future instances :)

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
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 -----
> 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.

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