🚀 go-pugleaf

I just mailed this advice to the original poster, but I will post it here
for anyone else who is interested.
I have the MicroSoft mouse with the most recent driver, which uses 17k.
I never had any problems loading it high!
Just be sure you have this line in your CONFIG.SYS:
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
I prefer the Windows version of EMM386 over the DOS5.0 version.
But the NOEMS clause is the important part.  It recovers almost as much
upper memory as QEMM, if you do not need EMS, that is.
I believe QEMM will give you plenty of upper memory and lots of EMS.
I don't need all that, so HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE work just Fine for me.
If you need more memory, then get QEMM.  But if all you want to do is load
the mouse driver and a few other TSRs into upper memory, the EMM386 does
the job.

Peter V.