Here's the directions since it was somewhat non-intuitive. I created a Confluence page at work but everyone asks me to disable it each time the problem crops up.
https://paulhutch.blog/2019/06/24/disable-serial-mouse-detection/ - Rod > On Jul 6, 2025, at 12:45 PM, Mike Stein via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > By any chance, do you remember what the setting/s was/were ? > > > On Sat, Jul 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM Rod Bartlett via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> >>> On Jul 4, 2025, at 8:08 PM, ben via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> True, but you got field service, >>> not some AI telling you read web page xxx, with a dead computer. >>> Ben. >>> PS: serial port had some active input on boot, and windows thought that >> was a mouse not the usb port. >> >> The Windows problem with misidentifying a serial port as a mouse still >> exists in Windows 10. I discovered that connecting our small ARM based >> embedded device to a Windows machine via its USB serial port sometimes >> causes the Windows mouse cursor to go crazy. It took a while to find the >> registry setting to disable serial mouse detection. >> >> - Rod >> >>
