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What was I saying last night? Something like "Whenever I get my system exactly the way I want it, I always have to break something"

Today I broke something.
I decided it would be cool to change the standard mouse and keyboard drivers into the respective names, ie wireless multimedia keyboard, wireless optical mouse. It asked me to reboot so I did. The mouse didn't work, arg better revert it, ARG keyboard doesn't work.

Safe mode won't let me move em either. feck.
After playing with the various options F8 allowed me to and got nowhere!

Fortunatly I had an old 15 gig HDD lying around from a mate, so have been deleteing the porn and spyware off it (this guy was an old man and asian porn and frankly its all a bit much) - got a nice activated copy of MS WindowsXP Home :D - with a working keyboard and mouse :p

What can I do? I could set my HDD up as a slave but where would I wipe or access what needs to be changed, I really don't wanna reformat as like I Said I have this exactly the way I want it.

boo hoo.
 
Wanna pickle? mmmm I think you have enough. :p

Ever heard of drvimagexp or xcopy? :D

As for your problem......................haven't got a clue how to remove drivers if you can't boot into the system without making changes to the system you got how ya want. :huh:
 
Thing is I won't be able to back anything up either :S
Would have to do a repair install then backup then reinstall, a damn pain.
 
Maybe try a cheap regular keyboard? If you try that maybe windows will change the drivers.
 
**** it, I am gonna have a cigarette then get on with it :(
 
Yeah, rettahc I tried that, it wouldn't have any of it :(
 
ok, you need to delete the bad keyboard and mouse driver file references then windows will grab generic ones.

Install your real drive as a slave so you can edit it. Then backup the registry on the original drive (just in case we make it worse).

Two options
1). Find your backup copy of the registry and replace the main one with it. This assumes the backup didn't get nailed too. Something like doing a roll back.

2). Load the registry on the original drive into regedit and doa find on mouse and keyboard. Get rid of the bad entries.
Good luck number 2 is very tedious.
 
Going for no.2 sadly as I don't know where to find this backup..!

Any suggestions on where to look for the registry or where in the registry I can find the keyboard stuff?

Got a shortcut regedit /s so I can run a registry change if I can find the correct setting... ARG
 
Yeah, realised that problem after i posted and have been looking for it. Bad news is I can't find it or the basic registry file to edit when the drive in question is not the primary :(

I'm still looking.
 
look in the device manager for the keyboard drivers on the good disk, then see if you can find those files on the bad disk. remove them, try to boot. If that doesnt work, copy the keyboard drivers from the good disk to the bad disk and try again
 
I Copied the drivers over tho they seemed to be identical!
 
Try running the repair option off the xp cd. Your keyboard and mouse should work booting from the cd and maybe, just maybe windows will repair the drivers.
 
do the backup files and settings thing, then repair, make a restore point, and then restore your files and settings.
 
i would just plug in a diferent mouse? ie if ur using a cordless optical usb plug in a corded ball mouse ps/2 they only cost like £3....if every thing else is fine then a reformat is just a waste of time, a repair should fix the drivers. as jonifen said last good config may fix it.
 
u tried reading This

sounds like it may work by manuly selecting a restore point via recovery console:cool:
 
he said in the channel last night that he had reformatted, but I never found out how that went, he obviously got windows and keyboard workin, but hes now gone for a few days while he re-tweaks it back to the way he wants it
 

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Also Hi EP and people. I found this place again while looking through a oooollllllldddd backup. I have filled over 10TB and was looking at my collection of antiques. Any bids on the 500Mhz Win 95 fix?
Any of the SP crew still out there?
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Impressed you have kept this alive this long EP! So many sites have come and gone. :(

Just did some crude math and I apparently joined almost 18yrs ago, how is that possible???
hello peeps... is been some time since i last came here.
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