Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:44:44 +0200 From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] PS/2 mouse conflict w/W98SE & Winamp 5.xx
Matt Hanson wrote: > > Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 03:27:18 -0700 (PDT) > From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: PS/2 mouse conflict w/W98SE & Winamp 5.xx > > Has anyone had this problem? I've been seeing it well > over a year or more now. The mouse just goes nuts in > Win98SE when audio is playing in Winamp. I get sudden > jumps of mouse position from one side of the screen to > another. And when the problem gets worse with time, > right-click menus start popping up while just moving > the mouse a little way across the screen. Just a WAG: conflicting resources? IRQ, I/O addresses, etc. Just check in System -> device mgr all settings of your mouse & multimedia stuff. Perhaps Otherwise remove the mouse and/or other hardware from Device mgr and have Windows re-discover it on next boot. > I notice I don't have the problem with the sound > driver for this TDK sound card. This clearly hints to hardware resource conflicts, or a mixed-up registry. > Another pet peeve I have with Windows is I can never > right-click on "My Documents" in Windows Explorer and > select "Find" to search recursively. MS in its > infinite wisdom disabled the 'Find' option just on > that one folder. Anyone ever notice that, or solve > the problem? I experienced similar things. E.g., from the File menu, if I moved the mouse pointer on New -> Folder the menu would disappear. I could only make new folders by typing an "F". FYI, a complete Windows reinstall fixed the problem....... And now a useful hint (for a change): When after installation of some HW or SW Windows 9x proved to be stable, I always saved the registry files and config files using Win95's ERU utility (IIRC somewhere in \Admin on the W95 CDROM). Saved my butt regularly: when I encountered trouble (sometimes after a particularly ruinous scandisk session) I restored the system by just restoring the latest ERU backup. (BTW WinME has a third registry file which must be copied by hand, I forgot the name.) Philip
