On 25 Feb 99, at 14:34, Daniel Ellis wrote:

> I am working on a clients PC Express older 486 running Win95 a.
> Everytime it gets in windows, windows does not detect a mouse.  It is
> a serial mouse on com1.

  I've seen this several times -- mostly on 486s, though I've no idea
why.

  The fix (which I originally got from someone here... Bob?) has been
to install a DOS serial mouse driver (the mouse probably came with
one...) in CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT (depending on whether the driver
is a .SYS or .EXE file).
  Although Win95 might fail to detect the mouse hardware properly, it
will see the DOS mouse software and "take over" its function, properly
supporting the mouse that it previously could not detect.


David G

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