I ran a PS2 MS mouse and a serial port Cirque Glidepoint touchpad on Win 98 and 98 SE for a couple of years. I still do it on my laptop with Win 98SE, and run a standard mouse (for my wife) on PS 2 with a USB mouse on Win Me.
In order to run the two in Win 98/98SE, I had to uninstall the mouse drivers from MS, and install Cirque's drivers. Their drivers ran both units. It was never a problem.
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>I hope it is easy for you to switch the OS(s).
>The following might not work, or be harder than it first seems.
>
>I do not know why Win98se does not like your configuration,
>but it might just be it detects things differently and is more
>fussy than the earlier versons...
>So I would try using *that* against it...
>
>I have systems that have odd configurations, and require different
>hardware profiles, and a new boot menu (made by Windows itself).
>
>The trick with yours is to confuse Windows "enough" to force it
>to bring up the built-in Hardware Profile Boot Menu.
>
>First, check the "state" of your system...
>Have you looked at the mice in Control Panel in Safe Mode to
>see just how "totally confused" Windows is about what you have
>and how many mice it thinks there are?
>There "could be" five or six listed in there...
>If so, delete them all in safe mode.
>You "might?" have to do a "keyboard shut-down" so learn how
>to do that.
>When you re-boot, only have one mouse physically installed.
>You and your partner can decide who is Original or "primary"
>as far as naming the mouse/profiles...
>If the trackball needs special drivers, I'd make the PS/2 the
>Original configuration since that will be easier to maintain.
>
>Look up hardware profiles in the help files and then set up a
>second profile.
>The first one will already be called Original Configuration.
>
>Look in Control Panel, System, Hardware profiles.
>Make a copy using the copy button, and name it with a short
>clear descriptive name.
>After you re-boot, see if Windows gives you a new boot menu
>of these choices.
>
>Add the second mouse in the second profile.
>
>Re-boot again.
>
>Go into each profile and mark one of the mice as
>"Disable in this hardware profile".
>That will be on a page in Control Panel, System, Device
>Manager, then in the properties of the different mice.
>
>I hope Windows sees this as enough of a change to
>warrant the Boot Menu to come up.
>
>If not, delete the second profile, OR look into what "will"
>cause a boot menu to pop up and then the mouse will
>be dragged along by the coat tails...
>
>Good luck. I have never done this with "just a mouse
>or two" and since Windows is"always" looking for a
>mouse, your results might vary. I've been using Hardware
>Profiles since 1995 and the technology is sound if
>implemented in a way MS intended...
>(I've never tried to use two mice,
>"connected at the same time", either...)
>
>Wait a day or two to see if anyone on the list thinks this
>is a bad idea or has other additions, corrections, or
>a different way to handle it.
>I saw the answer about USB, but would worry about
>booting support outside windows with that type of mouse.
>(Don't have one...)
>
> Rick Glazier
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Wilma Lawrence" <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> Is there a problem with Windows 98se? If so, is there a work around? I am back to windows 95. I have widows 98se and wish to
>use it, but cannot because of the mouse problems.
>
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