PRB: Pen Cursor Does Not Appear When Tablet Used

 Last reviewed: January 5, 1995
Article ID: Q76068
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Windows for Pen Computing version 1.0

SYMPTOMS

After installing Microsoft Windows for Pen Computing, no mouse cursor appears on the screen.

CAUSE

The tablet drivers supplied with Windows for Pen Computing are not mouse drivers. The mouse cursor is displayed only if a mouse driver detects the presence of mouse hardware on the system.

RESOLUTION

To ensure that the mouse cursor is shown, you must either load a mouse driver or load the YESMOUSE.DRV file in place of a mouse driver. Mouse hardware is required to use a mouse driver; mouse hardware is not required to use the YESMOUSE driver.

MORE INFORMATION

When the Pen Windows system queries the hardware to determine whether a mouse is installed, the YESMOUSE driver acts as the mouse hardware. Therefore, Pen Windows acts as if a mouse is installed.

To install the YESMOUSE driver, modify the "mouse.drv" line in the [boot] section of the SYSTEM.INI file as follows: 

   [boot]
   mouse.drv=yesmouse.drv
If the YESMOUSE.DRV file is not in the Windows system directory, in the SYSTEM.INI file, specify the complete path to the YESMOUSE.DRV file.

Additional reference words: 1.00
KBCategory: kbsetup kbprg kbprb
KBSubcategory: WpenSetup

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Last reviewed: January 5, 1995
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