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From: cdh1@eds1.UUCP (C. Daniel Hassell)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Win3.0 vs. LogicTech Mice
Keywords: mouse Win3.0
Message-ID: <589@eds1.UUCP>
Date: 20 Aug 90 02:57:16 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: EDS - Senate of Pennsylvania
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Maybe the world already knows about this, but we have found a bug in
the standard Win 3.0 driver for LogicTech mice.  Gateway 2000 used
to ship these mice to us with their systems (they have since switched
to MS rodents).  The problem is that when you open a non-Windows
app, in our case Lotus Symphony, and then close it and return to 
Windows, the mouse goes bananas: the smallest movement will resize
all of the open windows, execute commands at random, open files, close
files, etc.  All of this excitement occurs without touching the mouse
buttons.  We have dubbed this the mouse-on-drugs effect.

The keyboard works normally and can (must!) be used to 
quit Windows.  Restarting Windows is enough to restore order.  By the
way, this happens in 386 enhanced mode.  Note that Symphony is not
a mouse-using app, so this is not the standard problem of the non-Windows
app wanting exclusive control of the mouse hardware.

Anyway, if you reset the mouse driver (under Windows Setup) to read
"Mouse Systems or VisiOn Mouse on COMx" then it will work.

CD Hassell
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