USB Mouse driver

I uninstalled & reinstalled my USB ports/hub to try to solve a stop
error now WinXP won't run my usb mouse. I plug it in & the Found New
Hardware Wizard pops up, but then it says it can't find the driver.
I've tried different mice with the same result. Right now I'm using my
laptop mouse plugged into a serial port. Everything else that's usb
works fine. I've tried looking on Microsoft's site, but I guess I'm
using the wrong search terms or something. It's a Logitech corded
optical mouse & their site says to use Windows native driver.

Does it prompt you for locations to look? As I recall, most of these
drivers are stored in the c:\windows\inf folder.

desertgal wrote:
> I uninstalled & reinstalled my USB ports/hub to try to solve a stop
> error now WinXP won't run my usb mouse. I plug it in & the Found New
> Hardware Wizard pops up, but then it says it can't find the driver.
> I've tried different mice with the same result. Right now I'm using my
> laptop mouse plugged into a serial port. Everything else that's usb
> works fine. I've tried looking on Microsoft's site, but I guess I'm
> using the wrong search terms or something. It's a Logitech corded
> optical mouse & their site says to use Windows native driver.

Bill in Co. wrote:
> Does it prompt you for locations to look? As I recall, most of these
> drivers are stored in the c:\windows\inf folder.
>
> desertgal wrote:
>
>> I uninstalled & reinstalled my USB ports/hub to try to solve a stop
>> error now WinXP won't run my usb mouse. I plug it in & the Found New
>> Hardware Wizard pops up, but then it says it can't find the driver.
>> I've tried different mice with the same result. Right now I'm using my
>> laptop mouse plugged into a serial port. Everything else that's usb
>> works fine. I've tried looking on Microsoft's site, but I guess I'm
>> using the wrong search terms or something. It's a Logitech corded
>> optical mouse & their site says to use Windows native driver.
>>
>
>
>
It does ask if there is a disk or installation file, I think. If it's
in the folder you mentioned, shouldn't the Hardware Wizard find it?? We
think the mouse itself may be bad but that wouldn't explain not
installing the laptop mouse. I'll give it a try telling it to look in
that folder. There is a folder in windows/system23 called drivers, but
I don't see anything that looks like a mouse driver.

desertgal wrote:
> Bill in Co. wrote:
>> Does it prompt you for locations to look? As I recall, most of these
>> drivers are stored in the c:\windows\inf folder.
>>
>> desertgal wrote:
>>
>>> I uninstalled & reinstalled my USB ports/hub to try to solve a stop
>>> error now WinXP won't run my usb mouse. I plug it in & the Found New
>>> Hardware Wizard pops up, but then it says it can't find the driver.
>>> I've tried different mice with the same result. Right now I'm using my
>>> laptop mouse plugged into a serial port. Everything else that's usb
>>> works fine. I've tried looking on Microsoft's site, but I guess I'm
>>> using the wrong search terms or something. It's a Logitech corded
>>> optical mouse & their site says to use Windows native driver.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
> It does ask if there is a disk or installation file, I think. If it's
> in the folder you mentioned, shouldn't the Hardware Wizard find it??

Well yeah, one would (normally) assume so. It was a long shot.

> We think the mouse itself may be bad but that wouldn't explain not
> installing the laptop mouse. I'll give it a try telling it to look in
> that folder. There is a folder in windows/system23 called drivers, but
> I don't see anything that looks like a mouse driver.

You mean the system32 folder, I presume. Hmmm, how about "mouclass.sys"?
(Mouse Class Driver). That's in there, at least on mine. But I think you
would still need an associated INF file to install it (not sure on that).

Well, maybe someone else has some ideas here.

Bill in Co. wrote:
> desertgal wrote:
>
>> Bill in Co. wrote:
>>
>>> Does it prompt you for locations to look? As I recall, most of these
>>> drivers are stored in the c:\windows\inf folder.
>>>
>>> desertgal wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I uninstalled & reinstalled my USB ports/hub to try to solve a stop
>>>> error now WinXP won't run my usb mouse. I plug it in & the Found New
>>>> Hardware Wizard pops up, but then it says it can't find the driver.
>>>> I've tried different mice with the same result. Right now I'm using my
>>>> laptop mouse plugged into a serial port. Everything else that's usb
>>>> works fine. I've tried looking on Microsoft's site, but I guess I'm
>>>> using the wrong search terms or something. It's a Logitech corded
>>>> optical mouse & their site says to use Windows native driver.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>> It does ask if there is a disk or installation file, I think. If it's
>> in the folder you mentioned, shouldn't the Hardware Wizard find it??
>>
>
> Well yeah, one would (normally) assume so. It was a long shot.
>
>
>> We think the mouse itself may be bad but that wouldn't explain not
>> installing the laptop mouse. I'll give it a try telling it to look in
>> that folder. There is a folder in windows/system23 called drivers, but
>> I don't see anything that looks like a mouse driver.
>>
>
> You mean the system32 folder, I presume. Hmmm, how about "mouclass.sys"?
> (Mouse Class Driver). That's in there, at least on mine. But I think you
> would still need an associated INF file to install it (not sure on that).
>
> Well, maybe someone else has some ideas here.
>
>
>
I have the "mouclass.sys" file & an INF folder in Windows , it's a
hidden folder. I think the mouse itself may have gone bad, it won't
even work with an adaptor in the serial port like the laptop mouse
does. Hubby is going to pick up a new mouse & we'll see how that goes,
maybe it will come with a driver. My copy of XP says it's an older
version than the one on the PC, we had the PC upgraded 6 months ago, so
I can't use anything that's on it. The computer guy here in town is
closed today but if the new mouse doesn't help hubby will have t talk to
him tomorrow. We need a copy of the XP version he put on the PC plus
all the drivers, which he didn't give us when he upgraded the PC.

Thanks for the help.

[Angeliccare]

Had this problem. Was solved by simply copying whole INF folder from other (Windows XP Pro) computer. After this mouse was found correctly as an HID device.