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CHAPTER 6: Keyboard Commands
use the mouse but don’t disable the mouse either, take these precautions:
•If you never actually use the mouse with the CPU (as would probably be the case if, for example, the CPU were a Novell® NetWare® file server), either don’t plug the mouse strand of the CPU Cable into the CPU’s mouse port, or don’t load a mouse driver at all. If you do use the mouse, are running Windows 3.x, and sometimes exit to DOS, make sure you load a DOS mouse driver before running Windows.
•If you’ve loaded a DOS mouse driver and are going to use an application such as NetWare that disables the PS/2 mouse, first REM out any statements in your startup files (AUTOEXEC.BAT, etc.) that load the mouse driver, then reboot the computer to remove the mouse driver from memory. (Having the mouse driver unload itself doesn’t do the job.)
6.12 Reset/Enable Mouse in Windows NT and UNIX: [Ctrl] O
This is the best command for recovering a
If the selected CPU has gotten into a state in which it doesn’t recognize the “wheel” on a Microsoft IntelliMouse or other supported
6.13 Send Null Byte to PS/2 Type Mouse: [Ctrl] N
PS/2 type mice send control data to CPUs in three- or
If the mouse still isn’t right after you issue this command, the CPU must have been two or three bytes out of sync. Issuing the command up to two more times should do the trick.
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