Windows ME Build 2332 msmouse.vxd

[SupernovaNick]

I am trying to install Windows Codename Millennium Developer Release Build 2332 in Virtual PC 2007. The installation works fine until the first boot after copying files is done. It gives me an error about msmouse.vxd. I tried editing system.ini to change the line msmouse=*vmouse, msmouse.vxd to msmouse=*vmmouse but it then simply hangs at boot.

Does anyone else have this problem? Does anyone have a fix?

Thanks

[WindowsLonghornFan]

Msmouse sounds like your mouse for your computer is invalid. You might need a new mouse. Maybe. Im most likely wrong.

[Wheatley]

Msmouse sounds like your mouse for your computer is invalid. You might need a new mouse. Maybe. Im most likely wrong.

Why post obviously wrong advice in the first place then? There is simply no way getting a new physical mouse could possibly fix his problem.

[WindowsLonghornFan]

I think I solved it. Your ati video driver was freezing the system. You need to install a new version of the driver and it should work. Found the solution here http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread ... smouse-vxd

[whistler2250]

I think I solved it. Your ati video driver was freezing the system. You need to install a new version of the driver and it should work. Found the solution here http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread ... smouse-vxd

He's installing it in Virtual PC 2007, which emulates an S3 card, but he could give a try of booting into safe mode and uninstalling the S3 driver.

[SupernovaNick]

Thanks for the help. I will try that out
PS. What about installing virtual machine additions? It installs another s3 driver, so I'm not sure if it will still work. (BTW VM additions works in Windows Millennium Edition betas)

[WindowsLonghornFan]

Ok. Tell me how it goes.

[SupernovaNick]

I cannot boot into safe mode because this happens during the installation after the first reboot before drivers have been set up. It boots to the OS and gives me an error that it can't install drivers in safe mode and then hangs after I close the error. I even tried removing the line mouse.drv=mouse.drv from system.ini but that didn't work either...

[SupernovaNick]

Fixed it...
I needed to upgrade from Windows 98. Why didn't I think of that before...?

Thanks for the help anyway

[BF10]

A lot of issues relating to installation (especially with Windows ME, Windows XP, and Windows Longhorn) can be fixed by upgrading from a previous build that works.

Even then, PCem or 86Box is probably a great option to install Windows 9x builds since it emulates real hardware, which makes Windows 9x pretty stable as a result.