Under the windows shell I could use my side buttons to navigate through windows. When I use the litestep shell these buttons no longer work. I thought maybe it was a problem in the control panel so I went there only to find that my coputer is now using driver for a generic ps/2 mouse. So I reinstalled the drivers for the mouse thinking that some program had altered the drivers. I went into windows and everything was fine. I came back to litestep to discover the same problem had occured again. I'm using Win98SE and the only real navigation I use the side buttons for is back and forward in a webbrowser (Phoenix) is there a startup file that litestep does not load that might be the problem? Thank you for any help.

Did you install the Intellipoint software?

Yes I did
I started an application called Microsoft Mouse which solves the problem as long as i don't log off or reset

I was under the impression that LS loaded all startup items... do you know where (ie. in which regkey) the software is loaded?

I think I had the same problem. I ran Norton Windoctor and it was fixed... I was in the impression the installer set the wrong path to the IntellPoint program. It's under HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\Run

I found that if I just place the file point32.exe in the start up I can use the mouse buttons. Thank you for all the help

can you search your registry for point32.exe to find out where explorer loads it? it seems like LS is missing one of the registry startup keys...

I have found that with LS as shell, certain things don't get run from the registry...even in the same path. Point32 was one of them. Solution being to drop it into the startup folder. I still have issues with it every now and then, but nothing that really bothers me.

next time you find something like this, please send the registry key to one of the devs... including all quotes ("") etc.