How to switch primary/secondary mouse button on only one of two mi

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I have two touchpads (Cirque EasyCat USB) plugged into my Windows XP laptop.
I like to switch hands between the one mounted on my right and one mounted on
my left. So, I would like to make the mouse on the left act left-handed by
switching the primary and secondary buttons. And leave the mouse on the
right with normal primary and secondary buttons.

The Windows XP "Mouse Properties" box has a "Switch primary and secondary
buttons" option, but that affects all connected mice. It isn't worth the
effort to toggle this everytime I switch hands.

Is there a way to "Switch primary and secondary buttons" for just one of the
mice?


thanks,
Steve

P.S. I even tried physically opening the device to see if I could switch
some wires. But the switches are mounted on the circuitboard directly and
I'm not skilled enough with soldering to change that.
 
Nice to see some PROS - in here - shame the replies aren't as concise or
informative as what I can think of for another operating system.

PS - You'd have to modify one of the device drivers to work in the mirrored
fashion that your after. Sadly that's nearly impossible in MSoft. If youve
got the time though you could try reverse engineering it with Visual Studio's
commandline Debuggers.(free to download entry level editions)

-Windows uses only 1 pionter device, and what you have for one is the same
for all.

--Best bet is the soldering

Computer Nerd that services Grannies
 
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