>> Anyway, does *anybody* have *any* idea why reinstalling Windoze has 
>> made my mouse malfunction so badly??
> 
> I would check the drivers for the mouse, USB ports and any other 
> "mainboard" type drivers.  There might be some different version now 
> than before the reinstall.

When I originally installed Windoze, I used the CDs that came in the 
box. However, I now have a dual-core CPU, and [I forget exactly what 
happened] I couldn't get Windoze to work properly without using the 
latest motherboard drivers. Go figure.

So, new motherboard drivers. (The mouse itself doesn't have any drivers 
- or rather, it does, but I've never used them. The drivers are to 
activate the 15 buttons that I don't use. 3 buttons is enough for me...)

> Then I'd try a different mouse, just to see.

Yeah, if I had one...

> When it stops working, is the mouse still "there" (ie in device manager) 
> or does Windows think it has gone?

It's very hard to check.

10 years ago, I used a sophisticated operating system called AmigaOS. It 
was possible to operate this without a mouse, because there was a set of 
keyboard shortcuts for moving the mouse pointer and clicking mouse 
buttons. However, to my absolute frustration [indeed, near rage], 
Windoze doesn't appear to support such a feature. So you have to guess 
what keyboard shortcuts every individual program uses [assuming it 
provides any at all]. Grrr!!

I do have a very vague recallection that maybe I had the mouse plugged 
into the PS/2 port before, whereas now it's in a USB port. However, I 
*cannot* find the USB-PS/2 adaptor anywhere, so...

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