Intellimouse and wheel button

[Guest]

I got the new Intellimouse and installed the latest drivers on my XP. The fist problem is that every time I try to use the wheel button in another program (such as a game), the "Next Window" assignment activates and boots me from the game to the desktop. When I go to the Mouse Properties and assigned the wheel to another function, the programs doesn’t recognize the wheel button anymore. I tried to assign the wheel button as "Enter" but that just doesn’t cut it for me. I still loose features associated to the middle button in other programs.

All I want to do is to have my programs recognize my wheel button as the "wheel button" and not boot me into the next window

 

[Joseph Meehan]

Go to the control panel from the START menu and select the mouse
program. There you should be able to configure the wheel button. Since
there must be a dozen or so configurations of Intellimouses yours may be
different from my current on, but on mine the wheel now has three functions;
scroll left/right, scroll up/down and switch windows.

I might suggest that you may just be a little heavy fingered and you are
pressing the wheel down while trying to scroll as the default down function
is window switch.

BTW I really love mine. It is a cordless led model and has the
smoothest response of any mouse I have ever held.

Good Luck

--
Joseph E. Meehan

26 + 6 = 1 It's Irish Math

I got the new Intellimouse and installed the latest drivers on my XP. The

fist problem is that every time I try to use the wheel button in another
program (such as a game), the "Next Window" assignment activates and boots
me from the game to the desktop. When I go to the Mouse Properties and
assigned the wheel to another function, the programs doesn't recognize the
wheel button anymore. I tried to assign the wheel button as "Enter" but that
just doesn't cut it for me. I still loose features associated to the middle
button in other programs.

All I want to do is to have my programs recognize my wheel button as the

"wheel button" and not boot me into the next window.

 

[CheshireCat]

I got the new Intellimouse and installed the latest drivers on my XP. The

fist problem is that every time I try to use the wheel button in another
program (such as a game), the "Next Window" assignment activates and boots
me from the game to the desktop. When I go to the Mouse Properties and
assigned the wheel to another function, the programs doesn't recognize the
wheel button anymore. I tried to assign the wheel button as "Enter" but that
just doesn't cut it for me. I still loose features associated to the middle
button in other programs.

All I want to do is to have my programs recognize my wheel button as the

"wheel button" and not boot me into the next window.I never install drivers for mice, the generic ones seem to be fine for
average wheel and centre button requirements. Last time I did use them I was
horrified by the size of the driver files and wondered how much extra junk
they placed into memory.

 

[Guest]

Ok... I did some testing and it looks like there’s a problem with the current intellimouse drivers and the games I’m playing on.
-Fist, the program just doesn't recognize the wheel as a middle mouse button. The game reconises scroll up/down but doesn't recognize the button press at all.
-Second, whatever I configure the mouse button in the control panel to; it carries over to the game I’m playing on. This really pisses me off since the default middle button is the "Next Window" button.
-Third, setting the mouse button to "Disable" didn't solve the problem.
-4th, I looked at the trouble shooting guide that’s similar to my problem but nothing remedies it. I also don't want to use generic drivers since that would defeat the purpose of having 2 extra thumb buttons.

If anyone has any type of fix to this, it would save me a trip back to the store.


----- Joseph Meehan wrote: -----

Go to the control panel from the START menu and select the mouse
program. There you should be able to configure the wheel button. Since
there must be a dozen or so configurations of Intellimouses yours may be
different from my current on, but on mine the wheel now has three functions;
scroll left/right, scroll up/down and switch windows.

I might suggest that you may just be a little heavy fingered and you are
pressing the wheel down while trying to scroll as the default down function
is window switch.

BTW I really love mine. It is a cordless led model and has the
smoothest response of any mouse I have ever held.

Good Luck

--
Joseph E. Meehan

26 + 6 = 1 It's Irish Math

I got the new Intellimouse and installed the latest drivers on my XP. The

fist problem is that every time I try to use the wheel button in another
program (such as a game), the "Next Window" assignment activates and boots
me from the game to the desktop. When I go to the Mouse Properties and
assigned the wheel to another function, the programs doesn't recognize the
wheel button anymore. I tried to assign the wheel button as "Enter" but that
just doesn't cut it for me. I still loose features associated to the middle
button in other programs."wheel button" and not boot me into the next window.

 

[Joseph Meehan]

I never install drivers for mice, the generic ones seem to be fine for
average wheel and centre button requirements. Last time I did use them I was
horrified by the size of the driver files and wondered how much extra junk
they placed into memory.

I believe you will find most of that size is not the actual driver, but
the configuration program which only loads when you run it.

Most of the time the "generic" drivers will work fine. Most of them are
not really generic today, rather they are provided by the manufacturer to MS
who adds them to their standard load of Windows.

I generally use the one that comes with the device and I check for
updates.

 

[Matthew Shaw]

" BTW I really love mine. It is a cordless led model and has the
smoothest response of any mouse I have ever held."

Oh how sweet...(mine rocks also...)

 

[Joseph Meehan]

If the only area you are having problems with are games (Does it work
properly in all other applications?) I would have to guess the games are not
fully compliant and it is their programming not the mouse that is the
problem. Game programmers have always hunted for cheats to gain just a
little more speed. This is fine, until the operating system changes an
undocumented feature or another program begins to use it. In this case it
may be the mouse is using a feature that was undocumented and now is.

--
Joseph E. Meehan

26 + 6 = 1 It's Irish Math

Ok... I did some testing and it looks like there's a problem with the

current intellimouse drivers and the games I'm playing on.

-Fist, the program just doesn't recognize the wheel as a middle mouse

button. The game reconises scroll up/down but doesn't recognize the button
press at all.

-Second, whatever I configure the mouse button in the control panel to; it

carries over to the game I'm playing on. This really pisses me off since the
default middle button is the "Next Window" button.

-Third, setting the mouse button to "Disable" didn't solve the problem.
-4th, I looked at the trouble shooting guide that's similar to my problem

but nothing remedies it. I also don't want to use generic drivers since that
would defeat the purpose of having 2 extra thumb buttons.