Wow. This is really REALLY freaky. My desktop computer (Win XP) 1.7G PIV died. It’s the second computer I’ve had die on my recently. My other, you might recall, was a 3.7G PIV that also used Win XP. Well, the 1.7G was my backup and it went belly up.
SO … I began using my laptop, which is a 2.2G PIV quad-core machine with 4G of DDR3 DRAM. It runs circles around the older one (especially now what the 1.7G machine is a doorstop.) BUT, I HATE using the touchpad and the keyboard on the laptop. Out I go to the Internet to find something to hook up a PS/2 mouse to a USB port. (As an aside, could you imagine what I would’ve had to go through without the Internet? I’d have to make phone call after phone call after phone call to find such a device, and at a price I could afford.)
Well, I found it. Thanks to the fine folks at Smartphonechargers (that’s actually the name of the company) out of Fairfield, NJ, I ordered a USB dongle thingie to hook up a PS/2 keyboard AND mouse to one of my laptop’s USB ports. Windows 7 found the drivers automatically and installed them for me. A reboot, and all is well.
Thank you soooooooooo very much to the fine folks of Smartphonechargers, I can now use my PS/2 mouse and my PS/2 keyboard on my laptop.
Ordering with them was simplicity itself, and went smoothly. They told me that the dongle might not be here until Monday, but today is Thursday, 10-MAY and I’m loving it! (with all apologies to McDonald’s.)
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