The "/NoSerialMice" thing in Boot.ini appears to work for me on Win2k and XP, just fine, with all sorts of devices that are permanently attached to a com port. (Without any extra parameters, it will not look for rodents on any "serial" port, according to MS's blurb.)
The registry settings would posibly more permanent, but take a lot more detective work to figure out "exactly" what to tweak. And if you touch the wrong nerve....... The problem with disabling what Windows thinks is a serial mouse in the Device Manager (Control pannel, System, Hardware, Device manager) can also disable that COM port for any other use too, as I've found to my great frustration in the past. Regards. Dave B. Win3x, 9x, 2k, XP and an odd flavor or two now of Linux & BSD. > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Kirby <[email protected]> > > On machines W2000 and before you added a switch in BOOT.INI > "/NoSerialMice". > > On XP and maybe earlier, you can go to the mouse and disable > the serial mouse. > > Steve wrote: > > I remember seeing a posting on this reflector in the last > year or two > > about how to disable the PC's serial mouse so a Thunderbolt can be > > used on the serial port with no ill effects. Thought I saved that > > email, but can't find it. > > > > Anyone remember how to disable the serial mouse? Or where the > > posting/reference is? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Steve K8JQ > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
