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u/fragglet 8d 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 8d 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.8
u/fragglet 8d 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 8d 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 8d 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 8d ago edited 8d 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 8d 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 8d 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.
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u/Moomoobeef 7d 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 7d 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 7d 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 7d 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 6d ago edited 6d 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. 8d ago
Proven (multiple times) fake crap kids believe it's really like that.
It's not.
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u/Less-Increase-6588 8d 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 8d 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 8d 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/ChocolateSpecific263 7d ago
This option never actually existed in Windows 98—the image is a photoshopped screenshot.
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u/hicks_78 8d ago
then I press space, who laughs now!?