Gail Shaw wrote:

>> I couldn't get Windoze to work properly without using the
>> latest motherboard drivers. Go figure
> 
> Why does that surprise you?

Because for the last 4 years it's worked perfectly fine with the 
existing drivers, and now suddenly it won't. It's not like drivers 
suddenly stop working after X years...

>> 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...)
> 
> Try installing them anyway. It might be that the default drivers aren't
> totally compatible with your mouse.

OK. I'll see if I can find the disk...

>> 10 years ago, I used a sophisticated operating system called AmigaOS. It
>> was possible to operate this without a mouse
> 
> Windows isn't that hard to run without a mouse. Some apps have poor
> shortcuts, but most do have them. I recall the fun of using my university
> machine (win 98) for a week without a mouse, after I poured coffee over the
> mouse.

The point being, if you have keys to move the mouse and click the 
button, *every* program can be completely operated using only the 
keyboard. That includes e.g. games [where the developers don't think 
about mouseless operation].

Hmm... I wonder if anybody has developed a small 3rd party solution to this?

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