I purchased 6 Microsoft Basic Optical Mice for my office.

So, I thought since I just bought this nice HP Compaq 6515b Laptop AMD
Turion64 running Vista Business 32 - that I would use one of these mice.

Well Vista says for all of them "USB Device Not Recognized". Then I got 1
to work. I unplugged it and then when I plugged it back, "USB Device Not
Recognized.

All of these work on many systems with Windows XP just fine. I also have 2
Microsoft Wheel Mouse UBS & PS/2 compatible - these both work fine.

I went to the MS support site and downloaded/installed the latest Vista
drivers for Basic Optical Mouse.

NONE WORK.

I am convinced this is a Vista problem.

Can anyone help?

Oh, and yes, I have installed every single update that is available for
Vista via Windows Update.