I owned the original Logitech Cordless Mouseman. Used it far longer than I had any right to, decently into the optical sensor mouse era. It was of course a "ball" mouse. Three buttons on top but no wheel. No side forward/back buttons. I believe it came stock with an old style PC Mouse connector but provided an adapter for those newfangled PS2 peripheral sockets. As mentioned I used it year after year after year. Darn it, for what it was it was a fine mouse. But...it used an expensive non rechargeable battery. Not proprietary but not easily found. Those battery remained charged a quite a long time compared to AA and AAA, but eventually had to be replaced. I'd hold off as long as I could, mouse response becoming more sluggish every day. (The cursor also drifted pretty severely during low charge periods.)
One day I decided to figure out what I'd spent on replacement batteries over the years. Did the match. Don't recall what it amounted to, but the total was staggering. Went out the very next day and bought an up-to-date corded mouse. I still have that old mouse. At the moment it's in a pile of old PC parts and peripherals to donate to Goodwill, assuming I remember to do so.

I spoke to soon regarding my blue splotch problem being fixed. It's not. Yes, I reduced splotches quite a bit on still images. Reduced but did not eliminate. Videos seem only a bit better than before. What's more I now believe some (no all) complaints I have regarding my Transport Fever YouTUbe uploads are the fault of blotching rather than blurring. This makes sense when you guys say the videos look better to you than they seem to me. (Splotching isn't in the source material itself, so far as I can tell.)

Weird with the splotching. Can't think of what would do that.

My problem with corded mice is the location of my pc. I need a *really* long cord. Longer than usual. So I got cordless. And it was an expensive ergonomic mouse.

New laptop, new problems, it seems.

After Windows 10 auto-updated itself, my entire 1 TB disk is missing. It doesn't even show up in the Disk Management, as if it were deleted.

Any ideas how to recover it?

Format it and install Windows 7.

If you can open up the BIOS settings, see if the hardware knows it's there.

I assume you have two drives or there wouldn't be a Disk Manager to tell you it can't find it. That would suggest you can get help on how to do that from the system.

Best suggestion ever


Btw, does anyone know if there's a way I can stabilize MS-DOS? I keeps CTD when I play Duke Nukem 3D. On Windows Millennium.


Hmm. Me reckon SubRosa's suggestion may be applicable here too...

Thanks for your suggestions, I had to take it to the dealer today because yesterday it wouldn't even get past the "Preparing automatic repair" notification on the loading screen. The laptop is only 2 days old and I have more problems already with it than with my almost 10 years old Dell.

Ew. Hopefully everything sorts itself out.

Thanks!

The issue is solved, there was a problem with electronic circuit so some cable detached and as such my disk disappeared, that's the approximate explanation I got. They reinstalled the OS and some other programs for me and I got a discount for some further shopping.

Excellent.

Sounds like a simple enough fix too.

Capital! The good doctor needs his computer

Dunno why y'all be hatin' on Winny 10 - been working great for me for two years!

I've heard it's the best Windows OS ever and I can believe that. What breaks it for me is all the hidden settings that, if you can find them, keep changing back to their initial setting and forces you to do updates and install things you don't want.

I forgot to mention that some little data which I installed on the new laptop (Fallout 4 and its saves among them) was lost because when the cable detached, the computer automatically started its recovery process and recovered only the data which was installed by default. No big loss, though, and Fallout 4 is already installing now.

I don't hate Win 10, my work laptop is equipped with it. But I'll never convert my two home computers (which are 8 and 8.1) over because they work so flawlessly for me just as they are. When 10 came out a couple years ago I heard about all the conversion probs folks were having and just didn't get involved!

YAY for bad updates that ruin your laptop/PC causing me to do a factory reset . Oh happy day!!!

My problems with windows 10:

Telemetry
driver updates

Let me use the driver version I want dagnabbit.

I should have known! I'm thwarted once again by Windows' inability to keep the PC awake while my latest Transport Fever Scenic Ride-Along uploads, despite telling Control Panel to let it remain awake five hours before napping. As I want the upload over and done with I'll make do with next to no sleep yet again.

The upload would be finished now had the computer stayed awake as it should. Instead, I'm at the 57% mark! Another morning of not being able to watch YouTube vids, since uploading turns the internet into molasses.

That said, I think I found a work-around. Set my video player of choice, VLC, to loop an earlier SRA episode. Since doing so the PC has stayed awake. It's not been looping long enough for an ironclad verdict, but signs are good. Had I thought to try it earlier I might have gotten another few hours sleep. Too keyed up now, though I'm groggy as heck.

Have you tried to look up why it'd be hibernating regardless of your settings? I know some laptops have separate sleep controls.

Windows 7 has different settings than windows 10 too, I distinctly recall being able to put various things into hibernation mode, not just the entire computer.

In younger, more mentally alert days, I delighted in modifying DOS and Windows so that they would bow to my whims rather than I to theirs. Nowadays I more and more often roll with the punches and hope for the best. But yes, I vaguely recall searching for a solution. Seems to me the advice I found either didn't apply to me or didn't work. I suppose I can try again, but if the video-loop trick works I'm content.

We'll see, won't we?

I manually put mine to sleep at night so it never does it on its own. Auto hibernate gave me nothing but issues.

Auto Hibernate really does cause huge issues for me too; and no matter what I set it at I still catch it going into hibernation! What is that about?

I wish I knew.

My problem was that the PC wouldn't wake up after. I had to shut down and restart.

You can't disable it altogether?



Also; I still need to figure out if I can stabilize MS-DOS on my Win Millennium puter. Any ideas, guys?

What do you mean stabilize. And turning it off is what he's having trouble with. Its doing it anyway.

Whenever I play Duke Nukem 3D on my Millennium, it keeps CTD at certain points in the game. No error, just CTD, and always at the same spots. I guess one issue could be that Millennium wasn't built on MS-DOS like 3.1 was.

That's the same problem I had.

I did try to, but it never stopped it from hibernating, and no amount of mouse moving or key pressing would wake it = I had to hit the "Reset" in the back and turn it back on. Any unsaved progress was lost.

I finally fixed it by setting it for the max amount of time before hibernating; and then would click on a key or move the mouse (open a desktop file and shut it again) to keep resetting the timer on it. Of course that meant the PC was on all the time; which wasn't good for it either.

My new PC is a little better; I have it set not to hibernate and it still does regardless - but it is totally random when it does. I can be in the same document and one time it will go to sleep in 20-30 minutes; the next time I'll wake up in the morning and it will still be open.

But the new computer has two "On" buttons right next to each other. When the computer hibernates (despite all my efforts to stop it from hibernating) = the store I bought it from said I have to click on one of those buttons to wake it; and the other for turning it on.

Guess what? The hibernating button doesn't work at all, the same button that turns it on wakes it up; and it boots up saying "Resuming Windows" = and everything that was on the screen when it shut down is still on there just as it was! So I haven't griped too much at the shop I bought it from, only the couple times until I learned how to wake it through experimentation.

My old PC still has the issue, so when I use it I have to remember to activate it every 30 minutes or so to keep it on all the time.


** Mirocu, are you using a DOS-Box to run the game? That might help.







Mirocu meant turning off the Hibernate option (which I tried to do, but it kept turning itself back on no matter what I did to stop it)

@mALX - No I don't use DOS box to run the game, although Millennium does have MS-DOS built in. I guess it's just not so stable.

You think I can install and run DOS box on Millennium?

I don't know, but SubRosa might know. I am pretty sure she is the one that told me about DOS box years ago when they first started giving away Arena and Daggerfall for free. If it is anything computer related, I feel very safe asking SubRosa or Ghastley; they are my "Go To" people for anything technical, lol.

Knowledge of Millenium Edition is something else. There are some things that need to be forgotten.

Don't see why DosBox shouldn't work. It's main use is slowing things down, so the games remain playable on faster processors. Some of the old games treated processors they didn't know as the slowest.

Edit: and the other features are sampling the video for higher-res displays, and converting OS calls to newer ones. Even DOS changed.

I remember one time when I downloaded the freeware version of Daggerfall it came with a DosBox emulator that by passed the Dos and treated the game as a click and play. Sadly I forgot where I got the download at.

I'm using DosBox to play Daggerfall (and Arena) on Win 7, but ME is long gone from my systems. ME was installed on a laptop for a short time before that died, but most of that machine's life was under 98 SP2. I never tried DosBox under ME.

I found that I needed to run DosBox (on Win 7) for the mod tools for Daggerfall, as well as the game itself. Those were all 3rd party tools, as Beth didn't publish any until the Morrowind Contruction Set.

You can mod daggerfall? o.O

Here you go. BEST way to install Daggerfall. All-in-one package. Game. Built-in DOS. All official patches. Lots of unofficial patches. Extra content. Super stable. (I wish Oblivion were close to as stable!)

There are no official tools, but I did find some third-party ones. I played Daggerfall as an Orc!



Made that mod myself, as well as adding some quests to the game.

Nice. Where there's a will, there's a way!

So I guess I'll download DOS box then, but how do I use it to play a game that's already installed and that's using MS-DOS?


Thanks, Decrepit! I'll add this and Arena to the Arena/Daggerfall download page in my thread. The ones I had stopped working so yeah, much obliged

From what I've found on the internet, that Millenium OS seems to have a known issue with DOS based games.

Here is a link to a discussion and site on playing DOS games that may have more info:


http://www.dosgames.com/forum/about336.html


By the way, is there any way you can reformat it and replace the Windows ME OS with Windows XP instead? (or even Windows 98, for that matter; then upgrade to XP) - would that fix the issue?

Thanks for the link, mALX. I'll see what I can do when I get to my puter later. But it does look like it's a lost cause with ME

From what I read on there, certain games will not play on ME even if you are finally able to get others to. That's why I wondered about the reformat. From what I heard, ME is riddled with issues like this on compatibility. Do you have DOS as the OS on a partition? Would doing that help? (SubRosa or Ghastley?)

Me was garbage, just like Vista and 8.0 as far as I'm concerned. 8.1 got a bit better but I didn't care for the tablet designed interface. Still don't use tiles in Windows 10(and I could do without ads for your crappy game apps, thanks).

I'm gonna defend Vista...to an extent. It wasn't all that bad after the first big update. But yeah, up until then it left much to be desired. (My third computer, which almost never gets turned on, would still run Vista had it not reached end of life status.) I ignored 8 and 8.1 altogether. Wanted no part of them. Win10? There's much I dislike about it, though at its core I think it a good OS. Windows 7? My all-time favorite. MS knocked it out of the park with that release. BTW, if you refer to those games and other functions that appear among Win10's tiles, most of those can be gotten rid of.

Every time I turn them off, they turn themselves back on after WIndows updates.

My start menu is littered with advertisements. The tiles I turned off entirely.

The Start Menu itself????? Hmmm.... I don't have that (advertisement issue). Not sure why. Must have done something early on to prevent it more or less permanently. If so I've no idea what I did.

Yeah, in between programs there's links to the app store.

it's kinda BS. I turned it off yesterday(again) but I expect it to be turned back on at the next update. As usual.

Oooooooooh. <nods> I think I figured it out now. I never established an account with the store. Want no part of it. Therefore.....no adverts such as you get. Leastwise I assume that's the reason I don't get 'em. Didn't set up a One-Drive account either. Now if I could just permanently disable Cortana. Seems like every time I do so come next major Win10 update removes the means that let me jettison it. They really really to push that piece of excrement on us. It's a prime reason I never plus my PC mic in any more. The other is I don't use it now that I stopped voicing my infrequent YT vids.

I didn't mind Vista, only that it made obsolete the "Works For Windows" data processor program that I loved so much. I still use Windows 7 Pro = refused to update to Windows 8 or 10 when they came out. I'm really happy with 7, haven't had any issues so far with it!










That sounds like ad-ware, nothing should be popping up on your desktop from the OS. (some kind of "Malicious Software" maybe?).

No it's literally garbage from the Windows app store.

My security is tighter than a miser's purse.

I don't have a Microsoft account, and I did manage to disable Cortana. I use my mic frequently (Discord, WoW raid guild) and she's never fired up.

When I first saw the ad for World of Tanks I was like wth, and got rid of them... til the next update.

We'll see if they stay gone. I disabled them again.