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The biggest hardware quirk of all: mouse management

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cahult:
My mom has experienced the very darkest downside of windows: she "lost" her mouse and when she regained it the whole management software was shot to hell.

My mom likes to play solitaire on her computer as a kind of therapy for her muscle aches. The other day I was at her computer because she had told me to start it while she was in the kitchen. She wanted the computer to be ready for her when she came back. Well, while waiting for her to get ready I started a program and the whole system crashed on me. Nothing was working and I hit the reset button. When it was done with scan disk (of course the damn thing accused me of shutting down the computer wrong!) the mouse was gone. There was a little window telling me that no mouse could be detected and all I could do was hit enter and restart it.

After that start the mouse was back but now the management was instead shot to hell. A simple easy click now can be a double click. Why is it that windows has this badly written software? A hardware device should not be lost only because the system crashes. I have seen every kind of system crash just about anywhere but only windows can lose a device AFTER the crash.

muzzy:
Sounds like windows 9x. Upgrade to the NT series already and your troubles will go away.

Also, you should've just reconfigured the mouse speeds (like doubleclick tolerance) and all would've been fine again. If something happens with the filesystem or registry in w9x, you can have pretty much any kind of things happen.

Refalm:

--- Quote from: muzzy ---Sounds like windows 9x. Upgrade to the NT series already and your troubles will go away.

Also, you should've just reconfigured the mouse speeds (like doubleclick tolerance) and all would've been fine again. If something happens with the filesystem or registry in w9x, you can have pretty much any kind of things happen.
--- End quote ---

That's no excuse for Microsoft torturing home users with Windows 9x for more than 5 years!

Also, Windows XP has its share of problems too, don't think it's the best operating system out there.

Calum:
why not upgrade to linux? there are something like half a dozen solitaire clones for it, and since the mouse configuration is in plain english (more or less) in the XF86Config there's less of a risk of this happening, or at least more of a chance of fixing it.

cahult:
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