How to uninstall Personal System/2 mouse and install a USB optical mouse.

[XxHeatherxX]

Everytime I go onto the control panel of my computer (operating system Windows XP) and go to the mouse icon then to the device driver to uninstall my mouse, it always says it's uninstalling but when it restarts again it is still installed and the optical USB mouse doesn't get recognised. I just don't know what to do! Any advice??

[wacky racer]

Have you just tried unplugging the PS2 mouse and plugging in the USB one before turning on. Windows needs a mouse to boot up and may well recognise the USB one as the only one present

[ACtheTROLL]

what order exactly are(have) you done things in

the usual method for almost all USB devices is to install the drivers before you insert the device for the first time.

In the case of a mouse ... its slightly different as the device is taken for granted.

You don't say what system you have .... systems older than 12 months may not natively support USB devices and require the windows drivers.

The first USB keyboards caused problems because you couldn't config the BIOS without a ps2 connection - this sounds similar.

Try
1 Installing the new usb drivers ....
2 add/remove progs - uninstall your existing PS2(?) mouse software (if any)
3 remove the entry for the mouse from Device Manager
4 Remove the actual PS2 mouse
5 Insert your USB mouse
6 Action | Scan for hardware changes

Shouldn't need a re-boot .... but reboot anyhow just to see.
Most reasonably new motherboards allow for PS2 ports to be hot swapped (older ones require a reboot) - so if it still refuses to see your new mouse swap back.

and try the add remove new hardware wizard

If that fails .... it's time to poke around in the BIOS .. shout

[XxHeatherxX]

Wots the BIOS!!!

[ACtheTROLL]

Bios = basic in out system
its on a chip on your motherboard ....
lots of settings .... some simple ... some very technical
it tells you PC that it's a PC and not a washing machine

such things as hard disc size, ammount of memory
boot order (floppy, cd/dvd, and harddrive)

basically ... if you wand to know ... read about it ... don't experiment with it ... or you could end up with a doorstop