DOSIDLE and Mouse?

[houseisland]

I am experimenting with a wonderful little TSR program by Martin Balog, DOS Idle.

As the name would imply, it throttles processor use when DOS is idle. A DOS VM running without DOS Idle consumes about 75% of processor time on an Athlon 64 X2 4200+ just sitting there at a C:\ prompt. With DOS Idle, the consumption is reduced to near 0%.

But there are some peculiarities. If DOS Idle is loaded before an application is launched (as in from Autoexec.bat), most mouse function is lost. If it is loaded from a command prompt within the application, the mouse works OK. But then if the application is closed and relaunched with DOS Idle left running, mouse function is severely impaired again.

I am using Logitech Mouseware 7.x. I have lost/misplaced my library of DOS mouse drivers. There was an MS one that I remember liking -- much leaner than Logitech's.

Any ideas here?

Anyone know of any Internet archives of DOS mouse drivers?

Thanks.

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