This might help, and certainly can't hurt...

(Written for an XP system, your selections may be slightly different.)

Boot into Safe Mode and go to Control Panel, System,
Hardware, Device Manager, click on the arrow to the left
on Mice and other pointing devices, see how many mice
the system thinks you have had, and delete them ALL.

When you reboot, the system will detect your mouse and re-install
the proper driver for it.

                                                      Rick Glazier


From: "Mark F. McClaine" <[log in to unmask]>
> Whenever I startup the computer, the mouse
> pointer will occasionally freeze up and I have to
> restart it.  This is an Ast 486SX/33 processor
> with 20 mb of memory and 46.0 mb of hard
> drive space when not running programs.
> video display is set at 256 colors; using the
> Windows95 Operating system. I need to
> find what is causing this to prevent future
> problems.

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