Conference noted::windows95

    I suggest you reinstall the driver. That will reset some of the mouse
    parameters. Before you do that, check your mouse settings in the
    control panel. You or something may have inadvertently changed the
    settings to where your mouse pointer is just not visible. Also check
    your pointer speeds. You might want to add mouse trails 
    
    One problem that I had encountered (and tracked to a bad driver) was
    that my mouse cursor would be invisible in Windows 16 bit apps. 32 bit
    apps had no problem. 

    A piece of cheese and a trap may also help return your mouse...
    
    (sorry; long frustrating day)..
    
    *8)

    I did reinstall the driver

	Did you check what mouse pointers your system is using? Go to the
	Control Panel, double click on the mouse icon and click on the
	Pointers tab.

Larry

The one time I lost my mouse pointer I had to reinstall W95 to get
it back. A real pain in the rear end.

Dave

    I lost my mouse driver a few times at home..
    
    I had a 9FX motion771 video card.  For some reason, the mouse pointer
    disappeared.. The driver loaded fine, and I was able to click on
    things (blindly).. it was as if the mouse driver's color became
    "invisible"...
    
    After changing my Mouse pointer to an animated pointer.. it came back! 
    Whenever I changed the mouse pointer to the normal default, it
    disappeared again..
    
    I think the cause of the problem was part of the software that the
    video driver installed.. where there was a setting for a Chamelon
    cursor color.. somehow that modified the mouse color to invisible.
    
    Jim
    
    

This problem has been bugging a few of us here. In Excel/Access/Windows95, you can be 
working away fine. Then you try to do something like opening a mail with Excel 
Calculating and hey presto, the mouse pointer disappears. sometimes the pointer appears 
on the menubars but not in the workarea, sometimes not. A re-boot is the only rescue 
option.

 This happens at least once a week to approx 6 different machines... Very strange

Access has many wonderful instances where the mouse pointer disappears along with the 
progress indicator, normally when trying to access anything large (100000+records) but 
has occasionally happened with small (sub1000 record db's) 

 The answer..........who knows, I just reboot, our halpdesk looked as confused as me. 
They come over when it happens, and say"right, give it a reboot and it'll come back"

 I knew That.

Still, that's life I s'pose.

Stuart

      <<< Note 2902.7 by CHEFS::16.43.128.221::Mad "Blasphemer !!!!!!" >>>
                             -< 3 blind mice, etc >-

This problem has been bugging a few of us here. In Excel/Access/Windows95,
you can be  working away fine. Then you try to do something like opening a
mail with Excel  Calculating and hey presto, the mouse pointer disappears.
sometimes the pointer appears  on the menubars but not in the workarea,
sometimes not. A re-boot is the only rescue  option.

This happens at least once a week to approx 6 different machines... Very
strange

Access has many wonderful instances where the mouse pointer disappears
along with the  progress indicator, normally when trying to access anything
large (100000+records) but  has occasionally happened with small (sub1000
record db's) 

The answer..........who knows, I just reboot, our halpdesk looked as
confused as me.  They come over when it happens, and say"right, give it a
reboot and it'll come back"

I knew That.

Still, that's life I s'pose.

Stuart

    re: .7 by CHEFS::16.43.128.221::Mad "Blasphemer
    
    Sounds like a hardware/driver issue, possibly video driver. 
    Descriptions of your systems would help...
    
    /Bill

 System is Celebris 5/90, 3.25GB Hdd (3 disks, 1x2gb,1*650mb 1*600mb),
 48mb Ram, onboard Video(Sorry don't know which) (Upgraded to 2MB).
 Running W95,Office 95.

 All other machines are similar, though generally less RAM.

Cheers
Mad

    re: .10 by CHEFS::16.37.12.8::Mad
    
    I presume you have the original Celebris 590 (not XL, not FX, not GL,
    etc.).  That system has onboard S3 864 (aka Vision864).  I've never had
    any problems with that system, using the software you're running. 
    Still, a video driver issue seems most likely.  You can try updated
    drivers from http://pcbu.ako.dec.com/~ftp/options/video/VS862019.EXE. I
    found this by browsing through desktop > options > video > Vision864.
    
    I hope this is the solution, but if anyone can think of other
    possibilities, please speak up.  Also, do pursue official escalation
    paths if you need this problem resolved in a timely manner.
    
    Cheers,
    
    /Bill

Many Thanks,

 I'll give it a try and keep you posted.


Jeers

Mad

Yep, found the file and downloaded.

 Er, there appear to be two versions of the S3.DRV, numbered spookily 
S3-1.drv and S3-2.DRV. Also the dll has tso copies as well, S3_16 and 
S3_32.

 Now assumption being the mother of all crashes, I am going to assume that 
S1-1.drv and S3_16.dll are partners as are the other 2(S3-2.drv and S3_32), 
one for w95 and one for 3.1*.

 Now I'm no rocket scientist (Clearly), so is it a case of copying these 
files into the Windows/System ?, or can I change drivers thru one of the 
wonderful(?) wizards within W95.

HEEELLLLPPPPP

Mad

Forget the last mail,It's sorted.

Thanks for pointer to file.

Mad
(rocket scientist)
(Part-Time)

    re: .14 by CHEFS::16.37.8.50::Mad
    
    Glad you got it sorted out.  I couldn't have helped; I haven't used
    those files myself.  I tend to stick to the ones included in the O.S.
    
    Bill
    
    p.s. Mad (rocket scientist)
    What a scary combination!