When the PC starts up, the first job for the BIOS is the power-on self-test, which initializes and identifies system devices such as the CPU, RAM, video display card, keyboard and mouse, hard disk drive, optical disc drive and other hardware.

When a Guru Meditation is displayed, the options are to reboot by pressing the left mouse button, or to invoke ROMWack by pressing the right mouse button.

When Minesweeper was released with Windows 95, mainstream audiences embraced using a mouse to play puzzle games.

When the speckle pattern changes in time, due to changes in the illuminated surface, the phenomenon is known as dynamic speckle, and it can be used to measure activity, as in ( for example ) an optical computer mouse.

When the user activates the link ( e. g. by clicking on it with the mouse ) the browser will display the target of the link.

When reelin is absent, like in the mutant reeler mouse, the order of cortical layering becomes roughly inverted, with younger neurons finding themselves to be unable to pass the settled layers.

") When Hearn guest starred as a mouse in the Garfield and Friends episode Basket Brawl, Odie literally runs into a popcorn machine.

When Xerox finally entered the PC market with the Xerox 820, they pointedly rejected the Alto design and opted instead for a very conventional model, a CP / M-based machine with the then-standard 80 by 24 character-only monitor and no mouse.

When using a PC, a typical example of a games control system would be the use of a mouse and keyboard combined.

When a tool-dependent method is called ( say, as a result of a mouse click ), the method call is passed on to the cursor's state.

When alive, the creature weighed about the same as a well-fed mouse ( about 30 g ).

When the " Assabet " board is combined with the " Neponset " companion processor board they provide support for 32 megabytes of SDRAM in addition to CompactFlash and PCMCIA slots along with an I2S or AC-Link serial audio bus, PS / 2 mouse and trackpad interfaces, a USB host controller and 18 additional GPIO pins.

When a mouse or other prey is spotted, the kite drops silently onto it, feet-first with wings raised high ; sometimes in one long drop to ground level, more often in two or more stages, with hovering pauses at intermediate heights.

When Art visits his psychiatrist, the two wear mouse masks instead of having mouse heads.

When a prisoner who is believed by the Nazis to be a Jew claims to be German, Spiegelman is confronted with the difficulty of whether to present this character as a cat or a mouse.

When multiple nodes are selected, they can be moved, scaled and rotated using keyboard shortcut or mouse controls.

When a new window is created, a 3 × 3 grid is displayed following the mouse pointer, waiting for the user to click where the window should appear — left-click to appear in that position with that size, middle-click to resize the window before its creation, right-click to appear at that position but long enough vertically to reach the bottom of the screen.

When unlocked, " grips " are displayed next to the movable elements which allow grabbing with the mouse to move and size.

When enabled, it allowed users to record mouse and keyboard input as " macros.

When they reach the northlands, Martin meets his father's friends: the old mouse, Vurg and Beauclair Fethringsol Cosfortingham, an exuberant old hare, who show him a book titled In the Wake of the Red Ship, an account of Luke's life.

When running, CodeView would present the user with several windows that could be tiled, moved, sized and otherwise manipulated via the keyboard or mouse, with CodeView 4. x providing a richer interface.

When they turned in the saddle they could see the men behind them, strung out on the prairie in a flat black line.

When he saw me coming he turned his radio off.

When the station wagon drew abreast of the dusty dirt road that led up to the porch of the Culver house, Pamela turned the wheel, guiding the car to its familiar parking spot close to the house, and stopped.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When he turned into the highway that led to the outskirts of the city and then rose toward home, he had to pull over to the curb and wait for a few minutes, sucking in air and squinting and blinking his eyes to clear them of tears.

When Missouri's Clarence Cannon got the word, he turned purple.

When, therefore, it turned its attention to the concrete entities with which popular imagination had peopled the world of spirit, these entities soon lost whatever status they had enjoyed as actual elements of external reality.

When that fear has been removed by faith in Jesus Christ, when we know that He is our Savior, that He has paid our debt with His blood, that He has met the demands of God's justice and thus has turned His wrath away -- when we know that, we have peace with God in our hearts ; ;

When Mercer looked on helplessly, the half-man twisted over on his side, his pink dusty back turned to Mercer, and wept hoarsely and quietly to himself.

When Grant's spring campaigns turned into bloody stalemates and Union casualties mounted, the lack of military success wore heavily on the President's re-election prospects, and many Republicans across the country feared that Lincoln would be defeated.

When first informed he disbelieved the crow and turned all crows black ( where they were previously white ) as a punishment for spreading untruths.

When the Gothic campaign ended in Roman victory at the Battle of Naissus in September, Gallienus ' successor Claudius II Gothicus turned north to deal with the Alemanni, who were swarming over all Italy north of the Po River.

When the work was finished, the river was turned back into its usual channel and the captives by whose hands the labor had been accomplished were put to death that none might learn their secret.

When the Roman Empire turned Christian during the following century, this imagery came to be used in a more metaphysical sense, and removed legal impediments to the development and public use of the Anno Domini dating system, which came into general use during the reign of Charlemagne.

When the original digital signature generating software was turned over to the Atari community, development of new Atari 7800 titles began.

When this was rebuffed he made an attempt to cross back to Italy to collect his missing troops but was turned back by a storm.

When this kind of study is turned to the investigation of plant-people relationships in past times, it is referred to as archaeobotany or paleoethnobotany.

When lime is mixed with sand, it hardens into a mortar and is turned into plaster by carbon dioxide uptake.

When Claudius ' disability became evident, the relationship with his family turned sour.

When this flag is turned on for a file ( which can be accomplished by a computer program or by a human user ), the file can be examined, but it cannot be modified.

When he turned twenty-one, Danish artist Fritz Melbye, then living on St. Thomas, inspired Pissarro to take on painting as a full-time profession, becoming his teacher and friend.

When the Air Force project wound down, the Lab turned their attention to an effort to build a version of the Whirlwind using transistors in place of vacuum tubes.

When the TX-0 successfully proved the basic concepts, attention turned to a much larger system, the 36-bit TX-2 with a then-enormous 64 kWords of core memory.