PC Help Please? A few things I need advice on, please....

[Amy]

ummm well, I am abit stuck here in a few things, and am seeking 'a small how to' So if anyone knows, can you please provide me with those answers, please?

#1 How do you un-install a mouse driver? I mean well, I got a new mouse but it refuses to be reconiced by my PC. (one of those cordless mouse optical things) so blahhh optical is not the older ball mouse I am just getting no effects from it, yet with a few buttons. The install booklet says to remove old mouse drivers, but blahhh what a mess it always wants you to do soemthing that I have know idea what they mean....

#2 ummm also, anyone know how to 'view all items' in a folder? I mean even all those 'hidden' things? The point to this is well, I wanna see and if need be delete all these files that are taking up space yet serve no real purpose. Such as 'partial downloads' that never finished or were not completed because errmmm heh the password died, thus really wish to know how to 'clean' all those things and such. Also, am curious to know what all those 'hidden' files are anyway, maybe some are 'bad' thus really wish to kill them. Anyone know how to make the PC 'view' ALL files then, please?

~Amy

[LiquidManZero]

#1 shouldn't need to be done, and depending on the version of windows, might be nearly impossible. If your new mouse came with drivers, it ought to work to just have those installed, and only have the new mouse connected.



If not, tell me what version of windows you have and I'll find out exactly what it is.
The only problem with this, is it doesn't show all files, and the ones that stay hidden are the ones that ought to be removed... If I'm not mistaken, it's pretty much impossible to kill off the obnoxious ones from in windows... And insanely hard to do if you're running nt/2000/xp(with ntfs, which is very likely), for various reasons...

[Amy]

ah heh well, I finally got these things to 'working' The Mouse, I must admit is and was 'strange' seems, I had to remove the charging cable for it to work 'all the way' I thought you could charge while you used it, The buttons would work, and the 'charge cord' is a wire, so it was like a corded mouse, so I thought, and while the cord attached, the buttons worked, but the little 'optical eye' would not work at all, blahhh so I saw my mess up, strange mouse, but anyway that is all worked out now. Also glad I did not have to remove any drivers, and otherwise 'strange' that an mouse instruction booklet would tell you flat out the first step to remove all mouse drivers to start with....strange at how it seems alot these days, alot of instructions tell you to basicaly 'mess up' your PC more so or less. :roll:

As for the hidden files, Thank You for that advice, I found them all now. I wonder if they are anything that matters? I have alot of files called thumbs.db in all my picture folders from my backups placed back on my PC and such. I assume, well ofcorse, these are thumb files, but I do not believe this file is needed, as windows on all I ever saw, has those little file/image previews in the upper left hand corner always anyway, and no need for the thumbs file, I would think. hmmm wonder what thumb.db is anyway, I would guess maybe somehting a CD needs?

Anyway, Thank You For the help LMZ, with that my folders are now set to see 'all' heh

~Amy

[LiquidManZero]

It's perfectly safe to remove thumbs.db files, as if they're needed, whatever made them will just remake them. It's usually either windows itself or something like paint shop pro that uses those. They're not really needed though...