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(a)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(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>> On Jul 4, 2025, at 8:08 PM, ben via cctalk <cctalk(a)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
>
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