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Installed XP - mouse frozen - how do I reinstall mouse?
I've just installed Windows XP. I have a 4 button Logitech Mouseman
(not wheel style). When XP finished installing it did not recognise the Mouseman, which worked as a normal 2-button mouse. I tried installing Mouseware 9.42.1 (which I've used successfully to install this mouse driver with Win-98SE) but the mouse was still only recognised as 2 button version. I foolishly tried to update the driver from Device Manager, but totally screwed things up and now I have no access to a mouse on my computer. I have tried to download the XP mouse driver from Logitech website, but can't get access at the moment. What I need to know is how, without a mouse, I can get access to the Device Manager so I can remove the drivers that are there at the moment, and at least get back to a generic 2-button mouse so I can at least do something. I tried rebooting, and letting the CD autoplay. However, even though I thought I'd successfully reinstalled the Logitech driver I still can't use my mouse. The pointer is frozen in the middle of the screen. Can anyone help? Do I need to completely reinstall WinXP? Thanks |
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Hash: SHA1 di-y wrote: What I need to know is how, without a mouse, I can get access to the Device Manager so I can remove the drivers that are there at the moment, and at least get back to a generic 2-button mouse so I can at least do something. This is based on Windows 2000; XP may be a little different. Start Menu (you can activate this with either the Windows key on the keyboard or by pressing Ctrl + Esc). Use the arrow keys to select the Settings item and press Enter. Arrow to the Control Panel item and press Enter. Use arrow keys or the Tab key to move to the System icon. Once it's selected press Enter. You'll see the System Properties panel. Use arrow keys or Tab key to select the Hardware tab. Use Tab or arrow keys (they may work here) to move to the Device Manager button. Press Enter once that is selected. You can use the keyboard to modify the settings that you need to change. Another option might be to use the same process to access the Control panel's Add / remove software option and remove all listed mouse drivers. - -- Ron n1zhi -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFACwlqa9fyRcf4bIYRAk8iAJ45nBZ4hYBZljUYkRraij cmJgnyrACglHLo FFERfP4A86zu9DqEh4ief+0= =VqH3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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di-y wrote:
(di-y) wrote in message om... I've just installed Windows XP. I have a 4 button Logitech Mouseman (not wheel style). When XP finished installing it did not recognise the Mouseman, which worked as a normal 2-button mouse. I tried installing Mouseware 9.42.1 (which I've used successfully to install this mouse driver with Win-98SE) but the mouse was still only recognised as 2 button version. I foolishly tried to update the driver from Device Manager, but totally screwed things up and now I have no access to a mouse on my computer. I have tried to download the XP mouse driver from Logitech website, but can't get access at the moment. OK - I figured out how to use keyboard shortcuts to get to Device Manager and uninstall the faulty driver. However, despite the fact that the Logitech Help page says any version of Mouseware above 9.4* will work with XP, I cannot get my mouse to register as a 4-button version. It's displaying in the Device Manager as a MouseMan Serial Mouse - my husband has the same mouse on his Win98SE computer and it's described as MouseMan PS/2 (3). Not sure if that's important. Anyway, it's the mouse in the attached picture which I've scanned from the box. Can anyone please help me to get Windows XP to recognise this as a four-button mouse. I do not want to upgrade to a later model. (Even a three button mouse would be better than nothing.) Thanks How is the Mouse connected: USB or PS2 (the normal Mouse connection)? What I think you will probably have to do is to remove the software and install it via the Add Hardware Wizard [Start/Control Panel/Add Hardware/Add Hardware Wizard]. If you do, DO NOT LET IT CON YOU INTO CLOSING IT AND INSTALLING DIRECTLY USING THE MANUFACTURERS CD. I had almost the exact problem as you when I was converting a Keyboard from a USB connection to a PS2 connection and solved it via the Add Hardware Wizard. Apparently a lot of installation CDs just assume a USB connection and screw things up from there. Gene K -- Gene K |
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