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Best scroll mouse driver for Windows 95 and NT 4.0

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First post, by Robbbert

Posted on 2023-12-04, 11:47

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I've noticed that mouse wheel is not supported on a standard build of Windows 95 or on NT 4.0 .

I tried downloading a few random drivers off the net but none of them worked and one of them even made the computer go crazy so I had to remove it.

One of the NT computers had a driver by the name of Fellowes installed and that works perfectly, however I'm unable to locate the installation program anywhere.

What driver(s) would you suggest? It's a standard PS/2 mouse with scroll wheel that you could buy in a shop currently.

Reply 1 of 5, by dominusprog

Posted on 2023-12-04, 12:03

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Why not use the official driver? What is the brand?

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Reply 2 of 5, by Joseph_Joestar

Posted on 2023-12-04, 12:13

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Robbbert wrote on 2023-12-04, 11:47:

What driver(s) would you suggest? It's a standard PS/2 mouse with scroll wheel that you could buy in a shop currently.

I think Microsoft's Intellimouse driver can enable the scroll wheel under Win95 even for non-Microsoft branded mice.

Try this version from Vogonsdrivers.

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Reply 3 of 5, by Robbbert

Posted on 2023-12-07, 20:56

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@Joseph_Joestar : That worked both on NT 4.0 and on Win95, thank you very much for the suggestion. 😀

Reply 4 of 5, by maxtherabbit

Posted on 2023-12-28, 02:50

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Best method for NT4 is to use no additional driver and edit the registry to fix it.

See here:
https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/js … el-not-detected

If you have a PS/2 Wheel Mouse without special driver (IntelliPoint or 3rd party), and the wheel is not functional, it is probably not being detected. Browse to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters

Edit or Add Value name EnableWheelDetection, a type REG_DWORD, and set the data to 2.

Reply 5 of 5, by Robbbert

Posted on 2023-12-28, 05:11

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I still have 2 NT machines that haven't been done yet, so I'll try that idea whenever I get around to it. Thanks for the suggestion!

Also, I recently found the Fellowes driver that was on the original post, just downloaded and saved so far.

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