On 13 Oct 99, at 9:08, Doug Simmons wrote:

> What sequence should I do things in order to have a functioning mouse while
> deleting and reinstalling the new mouse and drivers? I am thinking of
> something like:
>
> 1- Shutdown the computer.
> 2- Boot to Safe mode
> 3- Remove the Mouse from Device Manager
> 4- Shutdown the computer
> 5- Change the mouse to new mouse.
> 6- Reboot
>
> ***At this point, PNP will probably ask for new mouse driver disk. Right?
> ***To install the new drivers, instructions say to run a Setup program on
> the provided disk. What should I load at this point..., standard mouse
> driver or use provided disk and see if Windows can find the driver on the
> disk?

  Neither -- select "skip".  Installing a standard driver will undo
what you just used safe mode for; their advice that you must use
their Setup program indicates that their driver, if recognized at
this point at all, will not be installed correctly.

> ***If I skip loading the driver will I have mouse functions until I can get
> the driver loaded? ***

  No.  Do you have a 104-key keyboard with the menu and window keys?
They make it easy to get to the Start menu without a mouse.
Alternatively, leave Windows Explorer open when you shut down, so it
will reopen automatically after you reboot -- then you can use Alt-
Tab to switch to it (if necessary) and the arrow and tab keys to
navigate to the install program.

> 7- Run install program
> 8- Probably reboot.

  Yes, I believe this procedure is correct.

David G

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