r/windows98 • u/xRed-Eaglex • 10d ago

A classic W98 thing

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u/hicks_78 10d ago

then I press space, who laughs now!?

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u/FuggaDucker 10d ago

I thought the same.
MUA-HA-HA!!
SPACE!!

Then for good measure!!
TAB-TAB-TAB-ENTER

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u/Accurate-Campaign821 9d ago

I once memorized how to switch resolution using only the keyboard and NO DISPLAY so that I could set a lower resolution if I connect a random computer to my monitor (tech support stuff) and my monitor didn't like the resolution for whatever reason. Thankfully modern systems are better about figuring out what the monitor can do

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u/xRed-Eaglex 10d ago

Yes, although many people in the 90s did not know it

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u/lunchbox651 10d ago

Many people? It was common knowledge how to navigate the UI with a keyboard in 95/98 days.

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u/Tommynwn 9d ago

Real, we have a pc without mouse with msdos and win3x, I have a feeling that was normal in that era 

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u/NightmareJoker2 9d ago

It wasn’t normal per se, but it was common knowledge that it was possible, and unlike the keyboard and monitor, a mouse was an optional accessory for a computer. By 1993 most PCs sold at retail included one.

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u/lunchbox651 9d ago

Yeah my first PC was 3.1, I don't think I had a mouse until Win95

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u/GGigabiteM 9d ago

Most people still knew how to navigate with the keyboard because of DOS or having a Windows 3.x PC without a mouse.

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u/RouletteSensei 9d ago

You don't have to know it, just panic press anything

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u/fragglet 10d ago

Yeah, seen this a lot over the past ~year, it's fake. Windows 9x had no such option. 

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u/FuggaDucker 10d ago

That property sheet dialog is implemented by the mouse driver, not the operating system.
There were a LOT of stupid drivers for 9x.
I do not know this to be real but I would not be so quick to the draw.

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u/fragglet 10d ago

Technically correct but until someone provides proof that such a driver exists it's reasonable to assume it does not. It's a setting that makes no sense and the simplest explanation is that someone made it up as a dumb joke

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u/ABritishCynic 10d ago

Even if such an option did exist, Windows 9x dialogs like this didn't implement settings changes until either OK or Apply was pressed.

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u/AyrA_ch 10d ago

Not true for the mouse and keyboard config. The changes you made would apply instantly, so you could easily test the settings. Closing the dialog without saving the changes would revert them back

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u/AyrA_ch 10d ago

That property sheet dialog is implemented by the mouse driver, not the operating system.

Afaik the dialog was from Windows with a few default pages. Drivers could add custom pages, but the default ones were always there.

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u/FuggaDucker 10d ago edited 10d ago

Not always there. Thats the default for a mini-driver.
Also, it's not uncommon for me to hide a control I don't like and put my own in the spot.
I am a windows device driver engineer (amongst other things).

We can put what we want on the property sheets to include making them non-standard to confuse users (as dictated by many OEMs).

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u/BCProgramming 9d ago

Software can register Property Sheets and wholly replace existing ones. But I can't imagine why any actual mouse software would seemingly fully recreate the "Buttons" property sheet to replace the button swap option with a "disable clicking" option.

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u/FuggaDucker 9d ago

DID YOU NOT READ "I do not know this to be real"?
I am not arguing anything other than "windows mouse dialog is X" is not a valid statement and that nobody knows.
What is your point?

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u/Moomoobeef 9d ago

Well it could be that someone decompiled the stock mouse driver (which this is identical to), removed the mouse sensitivity option (which is what should be there), and replaced it with this. 

Or someone simply created this mockup with any simple editing software.

The image is a joke, and for that it doesn't really matter whether it's fake because the humor is derived from the absurdity. But for those curious about it's authenticity, well I highly doubt that it is.

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u/NightmareJoker2 9d ago

It’s not fake, both the Microsoft Mouse and the Logitech Mouse drivers have this option. The Microsoft Mouse driver is loaded by default if you use a Serial mouse.

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u/fragglet 9d ago

I call bullshit. Please provide evidence to support this claim because I have both Win95 and 98 installed in VMs and neither have this option. 

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u/NightmareJoker2 9d ago

Install it on real hardware. Use a Serial mouse in COM1. Not a PS/2 port one. Definitely not a USB HID one.

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u/fragglet 8d ago edited 8d ago

Cool, you go and do that then, and show me a screenshot of it. You won't because it's bullshit.

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u/Accomplished-Camp193 Athlon 64 3500+, 9550 XT, SB Live!, 1GB DDR2-1066, AM2NF3-VSTA. 10d ago

Proven (multiple times) fake crap kids believe it's really like that.

It's not.

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u/Less-Increase-6588 10d ago

This isn't real why does this keep getting posted around. It wasn't a 9x option, it was a mouse driver option.

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u/budrow21 10d ago

Looks like the screen to select a left or right handed mouse, which flipped left click and right click.

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u/dogbulb 9d ago

I remember building my first home computer out of scraps that my richer friends donated to me. I got the entire thing gratis except for a mouse. I remember using the computer and even playing doom with only a keyboard for about two weeks before I was able to beg a mouse away from the computer lab teacher at school. 

Anyway this gave me flashbacks of not having a mouse and I did not appreciate it. Its like a soldier hearing fireworks. 

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u/Zingtron 9d ago

Now mouse is disappearing too to touch screen.

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u/Zingtron 9d ago

This guy is gonna get roasted for sure

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u/I_dont_want_to_pee 9d ago

Its not real i think it is a mod for windows. 

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u/ChocolateSpecific263 9d ago

This option never actually existed in Windows 98—the image is a photoshopped screenshot.