Author: Chris Taylor
Date: 01:46:06 08/30/99
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On August 30, 1999 at 00:21:02, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >I'm running Windows98, which is normally an OK thing. (Although I'd prefer to be >running NT...) However, my mouse broke, and is no longer recognized by Windows. > Until I can get a new mouse, I have to control Windows with keyboard only, >which I recently compared to drinking water from a sieve. To make it worse, the >mouse pointer is still in the center of the screen, as if it thinks it can >perform some function other than obscure whatever happens to be behind it. >Needless to say, I can't play chess anymore against my computer except in text >mode. I lose even more than normal! :P Even tasks that should be simple >without a mouse, like writing a post here, are far more difficult than they >should be. > >Anyway, the moral of this story is that one should always have a functional >mouse when trying to run any flavor of Windows. Dont know if you have a mouse, but there is a way to control the mouse pointer. Indeed full functions. I guess it is on windows 98 in accesability functions, you can turn the numeric keypad into a mouse. I know one gentleman who cant use his arms, and has to use sticky keys function and the numeric keypad. Look in control panel, and then check the functions in Accesability Options!! I hope this is included in W98 cus it is in W95 Chris Taylor
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