Hi,

Is there an easy way to get a mouse to work again without a
re-install?

The kid next door just bought a cheap laptop off his mate. The
trackpad is a bit jittery, so he's tried to use a mouse that is
faulty. The trackpad *was* working after a sort of fashion until my
ever-helpful 6 year old got the faulty mouse out of the bag and
plugged it in halfway through a scandisk. Now it detects that it
doesn't have a PS2 mouse attached, and pluggin in a working mouse
simply stops the message coming up on re-boot.

My guess is that the hardware knows it's got a mouse plugged in, but
the software is having troubles.

The problem is that the kid doesn't have windows disks with the
machine. I do have win95 on one of our computers here so I could copy
any files accross if that would help.

Any ideas as to how to resolve this?

Thanks