Help with Mouse Driver for XP

[CLASYS]

Problem: Sony VAIO PCG-F390 came with Win2K and Sony's driver for ALPS pointing device is one of these self-installing thingies that won't let you put the driver in directly; it has to "install" it which gets you a driver and a proprietary control-panel mouse extension. But it only installs in Win2K; it checks

I was able to install Win2K, install the Sony driver, then upgrade to XP. The driver seems to have survived.

Is there any way to eliminate this step for a clean install of XP?

1) A newer Sony machine uses the same hardware with an XP-supported driver? Or someone else's implementation of the Alps glidepath device would be compatible?

2) Any way to "lift" what the driver put into 2K/upgrade to XP to make it be installable after the fact?

3) Fool the driver installation package into believing XP is 2K?

4) Or anything else you guys might dream up!

tia,

cjl

[jaclaz]

Doesn't the ALPS software work? :

http://www.soft32.com/download_185339.html

some more here:

http://www.soft32.com/Download/Free/Alps_P...4-185339-4.html

Another link (elder release):

http://www.opendrivers.com/categorycompany...load-page1.html

They seem to be 2K/XP, cannot say if they work on FG390, though.

jaclaz

[ricktendo]

Here is how I back up my drivers Then I slipstream them using DPs Base: http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=279

Edited August 6, 2006 by ricktendo64

[CLASYS]

Doesn't the ALPS software work? :

http://www.soft32.com/download_185339.html

some more here:

http://www.soft32.com/Download/Free/Alps_P...4-185339-4.html

Another link (elder release):

http://www.opendrivers.com/categorycompany...load-page1.html

They seem to be 2K/XP, cannot say if they work on FG390, though.

jaclaz

Older one doesn't work on this machine; the newer links just wait forever and never download for me...

cjl