About 13 hours ago I unfortunately (in a fit of "clean-sweep"itus..) was installing a usb gamepad and had to reinstall it. So I went into the registry to remove any and all references to the previous install to make it clean for the new install. I did this w/o incident but noticed that under HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SYS\Current CTRL Set\Serv.\Classes\Mouse\ that I had several (six) keys, 0000-0005.
My current mouse is the MS Intellimouse w/red eye and wheel, and, although the thing has been working for months, it's been bugging me because it put a yellow exclamation point in my device manager, telling me that not all the drivers were present to drive the device. It also had two listings for the mouse - MS PS/2 mouse, and HID compliant mouse. ANWAY... That had bothered me and, like some insane fool, w/o exporting a backup of the registry settings (when will I learn?) I deleted the six keys under MOUSE (path as stated above..) as well as two more keys under the HID class, and one under the USB class. Yes, I know, I am extremely stupid, not to mention ridiculously reckless - I amaze myself sometimes with stupidity..
MY PROBLEM is that now the USB port will not recognize anything in a plugnplay fashion, it doesn't do anything when I hotplug the usb gamepad, although signal does pas through the port as my usb Intellimouse is plugged-in there (the sys is calling it a PS/2 mouse..?) Obviously the USB class key I deleted chomped something very functional with the usb subsystem. DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THE TYPICAL REGISTRY KEY ENTRIES FOR WIN98(1ST Ed)FOR HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\USB ARE?
I also need to try to find the registry entries for the HID class (there were two keys there..)in the same path.
Basically, I just need someone (or several people preferably) to post a copy of their registry page with these items open, so I can copy the values back into the keys where they belong. I think they will be universal enough that they shoudl be interchangeable if someone has a similar sys./os as me.
PLEASE!! I am truly desperate, I really mucked it up this time! I usually end up learning quite a bit from these heinous, bull-headed mistakes, so maybe they're worth it. Sorry about the upper-case sentences up above, but this post is so long now that I just wanted people to be able to skim it for relevant data.
TIA truly to any and all who have a suggestion or a registry page for me! I don't want to reinstall win98!
Larry
P3850, Win98 1st Ed; 10gig boot drive partition, 3 other 10gig partitions w/games, etc..
My current mouse is the MS Intellimouse w/red eye and wheel, and, although the thing has been working for months, it's been bugging me because it put a yellow exclamation point in my device manager, telling me that not all the drivers were present to drive the device. It also had two listings for the mouse - MS PS/2 mouse, and HID compliant mouse. ANWAY... That had bothered me and, like some insane fool, w/o exporting a backup of the registry settings (when will I learn?) I deleted the six keys under MOUSE (path as stated above..) as well as two more keys under the HID class, and one under the USB class. Yes, I know, I am extremely stupid, not to mention ridiculously reckless - I amaze myself sometimes with stupidity..
MY PROBLEM is that now the USB port will not recognize anything in a plugnplay fashion, it doesn't do anything when I hotplug the usb gamepad, although signal does pas through the port as my usb Intellimouse is plugged-in there (the sys is calling it a PS/2 mouse..?) Obviously the USB class key I deleted chomped something very functional with the usb subsystem. DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THE TYPICAL REGISTRY KEY ENTRIES FOR WIN98(1ST Ed)FOR HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\USB ARE?
I also need to try to find the registry entries for the HID class (there were two keys there..)in the same path.
Basically, I just need someone (or several people preferably) to post a copy of their registry page with these items open, so I can copy the values back into the keys where they belong. I think they will be universal enough that they shoudl be interchangeable if someone has a similar sys./os as me.
PLEASE!! I am truly desperate, I really mucked it up this time! I usually end up learning quite a bit from these heinous, bull-headed mistakes, so maybe they're worth it. Sorry about the upper-case sentences up above, but this post is so long now that I just wanted people to be able to skim it for relevant data.
TIA truly to any and all who have a suggestion or a registry page for me! I don't want to reinstall win98!
Larry
P3850, Win98 1st Ed; 10gig boot drive partition, 3 other 10gig partitions w/games, etc..
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