?? WHEEL MOUSE on WIN3.1x : HOW?

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

First of all, I've trimmed your badly cross-posted list addresses to
only those that are relevant to the question. (Tell me, have you found that
being rude and insulting gets you the type of results you want? You'll
certainly get the results you deserve.)

Anyway, if you had taken the time to read the box your mouse came in,
you'd have known that the minimum system requirements for your mouse are
Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT 4 SP3. It says right on the box that
it will function only as a standard 2-button mouse with Windows 3.1. There
are no drivers written to support Win3x.

I Quote:

"Microsoft® IntelliMouse®

Requirements

Standard Requirements
To use Microsoft IntelliMouse with the scroll wheel, you need:
Hard Disk 30 MB of available hard disk space
Drive CD-ROM
Operating System One of the following operating systems: Microsoft
Windows® 95, Windows 98, Windows NT® Workstation 4.0 Service Pack 3 or
later, or Windows NT Workstation version 4.0 operating systems.
Peripherals Round mouse port (PS/2-compatible) or 9-pin serial port
Miscellaneous IntelliPoint version 3.0 software (included)

Note: the zoom function works in Microsoft Office97-compatible or later
applications.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----

To use any of the mice as a two-button mouse, you need:
Operating System One of the following: Microsoft® Windows® 95 or later,
Windows version 3.1 or later, MS-DOS® version 3.1 or later, Windows NT®
Server version 3.51 or later, or Windows NT® Workstation version 3.51 or
later operating systems. "

What it all boils down to, mate, is you're too bloody stupid to own a
computer.

HTH&GL,

Bruce Chambers

Leave it to the computer industry to shorten the Year 2000 to Y2K....
.... Wasn't it this kind of thinking that caused the problem in the first
place?

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"Mark" <mar...@far-out.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:zmHqmLAZ...@far-out.demon.co.uk...
>
> DOES ANYONE AT ALL ON THE INTERNET EVEN KNOW SOMEONE KNOWLEDGEABLE
> ENOUGH ? !!!
>
> All I want to know is WHAT SOFTWARE DO I USE to make a Microsoft wheel
> work properly on WINDOWS 3.1 !!!!!!
>
> Is there any real WISDOM at all in amongst all of Usenet, or does
> everyone copy everyone else looking no further than a computer screen,
> as though Microsoft alone is GOD.
>
> WHAT SOFTWARE DO I INSTALL to make the WHEEL work on WINDOWS 3.1 !!!!!!
>
>
> In article <eIfBt9A5$Oa4...@far-out.demon.co.uk>, mark.wm@far-
> out.demon.co.uk writes
> >help please..
> >
> >How do I make a MicroSoft Wheel Mouse work properly on Windows 3.1 ?
> >
> >Which software do I need to get the WHEEL part to work on 3.1 ??
> >
> >If not, is there anyone (who knows about computers) I can ask that would
> >know what software I need ?
>

[Mark]

> I've trimmed your badly cross-posted list addresses to
>only those that are relevant to the question.

Thank you. :)

>(Tell me, have you found that
>being rude and insulting gets you the type of results you want? You'll
>certainly get the results you deserve.)

(It seems only way to get response on Usenet nowadays, even then the
majority of response is by people who either 1. misunderstand the
question, or 2. quote the obvious, or 3. get wound up.)

here's an example of No. 2.

> Anyway, if you had taken the time to read the box your mouse came in,
>you'd have known that the minimum system requirements for your mouse are

<system requirements reprint snipped>

>Note: the zoom function works in Microsoft Office97-compatible or later
>applications.

With Win 3.1 here on my machine I can now zoom, or assign middle button
to other functions. "These 3 Words" can be enlarged to half the size
of this vdu screen by clicking wheel down, any other button to cancel)

And No.2 again:

>To use any of the mice as a two-button mouse, you need:
>Operating System One of the following:

<snipped>

and here's No.3

> What it all boils down to, mate, is you're too bloody stupid to own a
>computer.

My MS wheel mouse now works PROPERLY on 3.1, how is that 'stupid'?

I'm certainly not stupid enough to beleive unconditionally what I hear
on Usenet, Microsoft (god?) and all those who repeat all what they read
without checking as if it's some kind of RELIGION.

(excuse me, I'm just going to pray to the god of VDU screens...)

[Outsider]

That just proves (once again) that once people become indoctrinated
into the Windows 4 (oh, excuse me, 95) religion, they can no longer
think for themselves - they let Bill take care of that.

--
Regards,
Outsider
MS-DOS 6.22, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Netscape Navigator 4.08
"As long as people believe in absurdities they
will continue to commit atrocities" --Voltaire

[Mark]

Someone wrote:

>Yipes! You posted this on THAT MANY boards???
>
>Anyway, the bottom line is simple: Scroll-wheels are very recent.
>Windows 3.1x support is NOT recent, and generally doesn't happen at
>all any more.

<further obvious & unconfirmed commentary continued and was snipped>

A4 Tech ('since 1987') http://www.a4tech.com still make their Win 3.1
compatible wheel scrolling mouse with drivers specifically for Win3.1
and later. ALL drivers support all Wheel, Zoom & other middle button
functions without any 'engineered' OS limitations. It is hardware
interchangeable with Microsoft's 'intellimouse' version of the Serial
Wheel Mouse.

[Pagan]

Mouse Systems also made a wheel mouse a few years ago. It worked well with
DOS and Win 3.x. Fact is, I still use it, and I like it better than the
newer ones. Five buttons, one was the wheel itself. I believe it was the
first wheel mouse, but even if it wasn't, it was years ahead of it's time.

Pagan

"Mark" <mar...@far-out.demon.co.uk> wrote in message

news:JQiE7uBW...@far-out.demon.co.uk...

[Mark]

can you recall what year it was when you first saw one?

Loads of people beleive that Microsoft invented the Wheel mouse and as
such it is only available on Win 98, and reduced functionality on '95.

In article <s7ck4dt...@corp.supernews.com>, Pagan
<pa...@linkline.com> writes