Stuck in legacy free hell

[Belwarrior]

i once had a similar problem, below is what worked for me, (worked with logitech scroll mouse and M$ intellimouse).

Plug in just the mouse alone into one usb port and wait 10mins, if nothing happens move to the next time and wait again, repeat until you run out of usb ports.

WinXP seems to remember where the mouse was originally installed and detects it automatically if the mouse is plugged back to the same usb port or else it takes ages, we encountered this when we had to move 10+ pcs over to another floor, and of course we didn't mark where the keyboard and mouse were plugged into in the legacy free Dell PCs. The wizard didn't appear if the mouse was plugged into the "correct" port

Good luck..

[MultimediaMan]

Update your DevicePath in the registry:

Extract the drivers to a directory remotely. (e.g. C:\Drivers\Mouse)

Append that path in DevicePath registry value (REG_Expand_SZ) in the following Key:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\

The Stock value is

%SystemRoot%\inf

Change it to something like:

%SystemRoot%\inf;%Systemdrive%\Drivers\Mouse

...then try to do the installation.

For those of you who work in the "Sysprep World" note that this key can handle up to 65535 characters

[Technoid]

i once had a similar problem, below is what worked for me, (worked with logitech scroll mouse and M$ intellimouse).

Plug in just the mouse alone into one usb port and wait 10mins, if nothing happens move to the next time and wait again, repeat until you run out of usb ports.

WinXP seems to remember where the mouse was originally installed and detects it automatically if the mouse is plugged back to the same usb port or else it takes ages, we encountered this when we had to move 10+ pcs over to another floor, and of course we didn't mark where the keyboard and mouse were plugged into in the legacy free Dell PCs. The wizard didn't appear if the mouse was plugged into the "correct" port

Good luck..

That's an idea, asking the customer for his mouse...

Update your DevicePath in the registry:

Extract the drivers to a directory remotely. (e.g. C:\Drivers\Mouse)

Append that path in DevicePath registry value (REG_Expand_SZ) in the following Key:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\

The Stock value is

%SystemRoot%\inf

Change it to something like:

%SystemRoot%\inf;%Systemdrive%\Drivers\Mouse

...then try to do the installation.

For those of you who work in the "Sysprep World" note that this key can handle up to 65535 characters

Not sure what this will accomplice, windows recognizes the make and model just fine

[MultimediaMan]

If that is the case, Then the driver it's trying to install not a WHQL-signed driver; you can read what the issue is in the C:\WINDOWS\setupapi.log file.

Try plugging in a regular USB mouse which uses the standard HID device.