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From: nan@math.ksu.edu (Nan Zou)
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Subject: Re: YAMOD (Yet Another Mouse On Drugs)
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.052515.24722@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 91 05:25:15 GMT
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np4@prism.gatech.EDU (POMPONIO,NICHOLAS A) writes:

>I am having a "mouse-on-drugs" problem.  It occurrs only after I return from
>a full-screen DOS window, and only after a cold boot. Every morning I have to
>get into Windows and perform a warm boot so that I can use my DOS applications
>with impunity. I must, however, reboot from within Windows for the problem to
>go away; a reboot from DOS before entering Windows won't help.

>I am running  Windows 3.0 in 386 mode. I have the "stacks=0,0" statement in
>the CONFIG.SYS file, and I am using a Logitech mouse with the most current
>driver. I've seen a lot of articles about problems with Logitech mice, but
>I don't believe that the driver is the problem. Some applications, such as
>CrossTalk, do not even load the Logitech mouse driver when launched from
>Windows, (it is not loaded at boot-up, either) yet returning from them
>after a cold boot still produces the problem. 

I do think this is a driver problem. I had the problem regularly when I
switch from windowed dos program to full screen and back. I've found one
solution to this: start a dos program in windowed mode, now hit Alt-Enter
to switch to full screen, don't switch it back again, use the program's normal
quit command to exit, or Ctrl-Esc to go to other program, after you exit the
program in full screen mode, you won't have any problem again, at least I
haven't encountered any. I don't know the reason execpt that it works for me.

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