re: Wireless USB mice which work on 98se? Monday, April 6, 2009 at 4:44 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (3934 messages posted) Louis wrote: |[...]The newer mice are USB 2 | All implementations of USB2 *should* be backwards-compatible With USB1. |and most seem to say that they will only work on 2K-Vista. | aka "The NT Kernel". Just because all the variants of M$'s OS have "Windows" in their names does NOT mean they are similar under the hood. There are several M$ OS kernels--and those are NOT compatible on many levels. cache of citemd.com/cms/?q=node/65&query=m/mi/microsoft_windows.html#Current%20versions%20of%20Windows |I assume it's due to the software they use | Yes, but not for the reasons you think. The software you are referring to is called a "device driver". **What is a device driver?** http://www.karlsforums.com/faq/faq_devicedriver.htm A device driver has to be written for a specific OS kernel. ...and even some software ostensibly written for an NT-kernel OS (e.g. Win2000/XP) won't work with another NT-kernel OS (e.g. Vista--which happens a lot). |to control the extra buttons or the side to side scroll or zoom capabilities |- which I do not need. | *That* is NOT the limiting factor. You extrapolated beyond your knowledge base. See "NT Kernel" (above). When buying hardware to work with a 10-year-old M$ OS, look for **your** OS in the Supported OSes list on the packaging / spec sheet. Many (inferior/lazy) manufacturers don't bother to suppport Win9x (nor Linux). JUST AVOID THOSE VENDORS. Only AFTER you see he supports *you* (and your OS of choice) do you hand over your money to a vendor. Written in response to: Wireless USB mice, which work on 98se? (Louis: Monday, April 6, 2009 at 1:48 pm) Responses to this message: re: Wireless USB mice which work on 98se? (Louis: Monday, April 6, 2009 at 7:37 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Wireless USB mice, which work on 98se? (Louis: Mon, Apr 6, 2009, 1:48 pm) re: Wireless USB mice which work on 98se? (gewg_: Mon, Apr 6, 2009, 4:44 pm) re: Wireless USB mice which work on 98se? (Louis: Mon, Apr 6, 2009, 7:37 pm) re: Wireless USB mice which work on 98se? (gewg_: Tue, Apr 7, 2009, 12:53 pm) re: Wireless USB mice, which work on 98se? (Louis: Mon, Apr 20, 2009, 9:29 pm) re: Wireless USB mice, which work on 98se? (Louis: Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 1:05 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum