safe mode logitech mouse default (W98)

[kmutiny]

How do I make my Logitech mouse my default mouse in safe mode on my Winbooks notebook?
It's a pain not having my mouse work whenever I have to use safe mode.

[BertImmenschuh]

The issue is that in Safe Mode Windows does not load the drivers necessary for such things as the sound card, third-party input devices/mice, modem, USB devices, etc. It's only a Diagnostic mode, not intended for doing everything the Normal mode allows. The PS2 mice seem to work fine.

My Notebooks have a setting in the BIOS that allows use of a PS2 mouse when present.

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[kmutiny]

My notebook has two mice "substitutes" -- the pointer device in the middle of the keyboard and the touch pad next to the keyboard [don't these use drivers?] Is it that they are hardwired and don’t have drivers? Or is is that the hardware is more native than a PS2 port? I mean, why can’t I tell Safe Mode to not recognize the touch pad and the keyboard pointer and instead recognize the Logitech mouse? Even if I tell the bios to recognize the ps2 port, the Logitech driver has to be loaded by Safe Mode. How do people navigate around in Safe Mode without a mouse?

[BertImmenschuh]

The "J-Mouse" and Touchpad are native to the Notebook, an external USB or PS/2 mouse is the substitute for them.

If the J-Mouse and Touchpad are usable in the BIOS then the BIOS is setting them up before Windows loads.

The main reason to have both the J-Mouse and Touchpad is so another piece of hardware doesn't have to carried or remembered to put in the bag.

Some people don't like the J-Mouse and manufacturers probably found it was much easier and cheaper to add in the Touchpad than to redesign the keyboard to leave out the J-Mouse. Or maybe it was just to give more choices.

I for one would probably bypass a Notebook with only a J-Mouse, have gotten used to the Touchpad.

I find on my Notebooks that navigating in Safe Mode without an external mouse is quite easy using the Touchpad, no J-Mouse on mine.

<font color=blue>Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.</font color=blue> <font color=green>Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.</font color=green>