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From: rodrigol@ulrik.uio.no (Rodrigo Lopez)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Logitech & Windows : HELP !
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.130838.19068@ulrik.uio.no>
Date: 18 Jun 91 13:08:38 GMT
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In article <11837@mirsa.inria.fr>, pujol@anne.inria.fr (Jean-Pierre
Pujol) writes:
> In article <11817@mirsa.inria.fr>, pujol@sally.inria.fr (Jean-Pierre
Pujol) writes:
> > 
> > I'm using a Logitech mouse, and Windows 3 on a 386
> > SVC (Sillicon Valley Computer) 25 Mhz.
> > 
> > Every time I move my mouse while Windows is working
> > (opening a window, drawing a picture,...) I lose my
> > cursor (amd my mouse).
> > 
> > The only solution I found is to run a mouse-user soft
> > (like PcShell) from Windows, and then to come back to
> > Windows. Tedious !!
> > 
> > HELP ME !!!!!!!
> > 
> > Jean-Pierre
> > pujol@mirsa.inria.fr
> 
> My problems increased yesterday : not only I'm losing my
> mouse every minut (as described before), but also I can't
> anymore retrieve it by running PcShell. As a matter of fact
> Windows send me an error message, as it cannot use the
> mouse on COM1 port, if this port is consecrated to a non-
> windows application (!). I'm surprised for it's the very
> first time it acts as it does.
> 
> Is there any good people who's using both a LOGITECH and
> WINDOWS with(out) problem(s) ??
> 
> JP
> pujol@mirsa.inria.fr
> 
> Thanks in advance !

There are three things you may try, though I cannot warrante any will
work:

1. Load the mouse driver from logitech FROM DOS. BEFORE you start
windows.
2. Add the following to your mouse.com or mouse.sys command line:

If you load the mouse driver using CONFIG.SYS

DEVICE=C:\MOUSE\MOUSE.SYS /M:2

If you are loading the mouse driver from autoexec.bat

c:\mouse\mouse.com /m:2

3. You can change the following setting in system.ini under the 386enh
section:

MouseSoftInit=false (the default is true)