Serial Mouse Doesn't Work in Safe Mode

[Love Music]

XP3 Registry Safeboot\Minimal lists sermouse.sys (a 9 pin dshell touchpad) as
default, which works ok in Normal Mode but not in Safe Mode. Some menus are
impossible to navigate by keyboard (without a mouse). I then have to find
and plug in a ps2 mouse which I normally don't use. How can I add sermouse
driver to
Safemode boot? It worked fine with Win98.

I know I can probably fiddle with Keyboard/Mouse Accessability and would
rather not.

 

[Mike Moreland]

I"m assuming your mouse a USB mouse? If so, then it's not supported in
Safe-Mode. I know it seems like some menus are impossible to navigate
without a mouse; but they're not. Here is the complete list for navigating
menus with the keyboard in windows xp.

Hit the alt key, and menu items will underline the letter you need to type
to access that item
Release the alt key and type the letter corresponding to the menu item you
want (of course, you can always use the up and down arrow keys as well)
Continue this method to navigate submenus. If the item you select does not
have a submenu, it will be activated — no need to hit Enter
Dialogs

Navigating dialogs via the keyboard is thorough and consistent throughout
all applications. Use the Tab key to move from one control to the next. Use
the up and down arrows to navigate drop-down menus, or type the first letter
of the item you want to select. You can only type the first letter of the
menu item to navigate this way, so if there are several items that begin with
the same letter, you will need to use the arrow keys to further narrow your
selection.

Filesystem

XP's keyboard shortcuts are based on one modifier key (usually control),
plus an additional key (usually a letter, and sometimes a mnemonic). A third
key is used to modify a command. Some menu items do not have keyboard
shortcuts, however, and many do not make use of mnemonics, making them harder
to remember. For example, the keyboard shortcut for "Quit" or "Close" (if
multiple windows of the same application are open) is alt-F4.

Mike Moreland
Integrated Secure

 

[smlunatick]

I"m assuming your mouse a USB mouse?  If so, then it's not supported in
Safe-Mode.  I know it seems like some menus are impossible to navigate
without a mouse; but they're not.  Here is the complete list for navigating
menus with the keyboard in windows xp.

Hit the alt key, and menu items will underline the letter you need to type
to access that item
Release the alt key and type the letter corresponding to the menu item you
want (of course, you can always use the up and down arrow keys as well)
Continue this method to navigate submenus. If the item you select does not
have a submenu, it will be activated — no need to hit Enter
Dialogs

Navigating dialogs via the keyboard is thorough and consistent throughout
all applications. Use the Tab key to move from one control to the next. Use
the up and down arrows to navigate drop-down menus, or type the first letter
of the item you want to select. You can only type the first letter of the
menu item to navigate this way, so if there are several items that begin with
the same letter, you will need to use the arrow keys to further narrow your
selection.

Filesystem

XP's keyboard shortcuts are based on one modifier key (usually control),
plus an additional key (usually a letter, and sometimes a mnemonic). A third
key is used to modify a command. Some menu items do not have keyboard
shortcuts, however, and many do not make use of mnemonics, making them harder
to remember. For example, the keyboard shortcut for "Quit" or "Close" (if
multiple windows of the same application are open) is alt-F4.

Mike Moreland
Integrated Secure

The OP had specified a subject of Serial mouse and mentioned in their
post "9 pin dshell touchpad." This is a serial mouse connecting to a
standard DB9 (9-pin) serial communication port. All suggestions for
USB mice is useless.

 

[Love Music]

Thanks for responding: I'm more after an answer for "should/can SafeMode be
taught to respond to (non USB) 9pin serial Mouse - ie. is it possible ?

My work-around was to feed the beast a PS/2 mouse, but in resonse to your
work-around I did actually try to keyboard thru some system and 3rd party
menus that eventually blocked views of each other. I could have spent more
time to further learn keyboard but chose to just 'gett'er done'.

 

[Mike Moreland]

The serial mouse won't work in safe mode. Its not supported with any
drivers. Why not just use a PS/2 or USB mouse??

 

[Love Music]

: Why not just use a PS/2 or USB mouse??

"Love Music" responds: Jes plain OCD stubb'rness I guess.