Mouse Stops Responding with PC Tools Screen Saver
Article ID: 106441
Article Last Modified on 9/23/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Mouse Driver 9.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q106441
SYMPTOMS
Your mouse stops responding when you return to an MS-DOS-based application
after the screen saver from Central Point Software PC Tools 8.0 is
activated.
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, do one of the following:
- Disable the PC Tools screen saver.
-or-
- Exit the application using the keyboard and then reinitialize the
mouse driver by typing mouse at the
MOUSE subdirectory.
-or-
- Use an earlier version of the Microsoft Mouse driver. This behavior
does not occur with Microsoft Mouse driver versions 8.2 and
earlier.
STATUS
Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information
here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
Additional query words: 9.00 9 msmouse ms-mouse ms mouse hang lock
Keywords: KB106441