Continual Mouse Problems

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Please tell us what type and company of mouse you are using also driver version
peter
"Marianne" <absolut1@cox.net> wrote in message
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> When I boot my machine I see my pointer but it will not
> move. What I usually have to do is re-install my OS and
> that usually does the trick, but this last time I had to
> use WIPE DRIVE and then re-installed my OS, and I got it
> to work again. Did all my updates installed Norton
> firewall and antivirus, basic stuff. Everything was fine
> until two days later, booted my machine and lost my mouse
> again. I am stuck using my keypad again.
>
> I have tried just about everything from disabling most of
> my hardware but my keyboard and mouse, even used a
> different mouse. If I go to mouse properties it won't
> even let me troubleshoot. If I look in Device Manager it
> is not listed like all the other devices. I posted
> almost the same question two days ago on Microsoft and I
> was told it could be viral or adware. Ran my virus check
> and nothing, Lavasoft's adware too. I do not download
> any music from P2P networks.
>
> I had another tower different hardrive running windows 98
> and it did the same exact thing! Could there be a
> problem in BIOS? Hacker? What? Re-installing
> everything over and over is very time consuming and it's
> not fixing the problem. PLEASE HELP!