Mouse drivers that support 3 buttons
Claudio Bogado Pompa
I have an old mouse and I want to have the middle button working.
It's FCC ID: IOWCM-290F.
I already tryed the logitech serial mouse driver and the other
logitech serial mouse driver with no success.
Thanks in advance.
Greetings from Paraguay.
Claudio Bogado Pompa.
John McCabe
Pompa) wrote:
>Do you know which mouse drivers support 3 buttons in Win 98SE?
>I have an old mouse and I want to have the middle button working.
>It's FCC ID: IOWCM-290F.
>I already tryed the logitech serial mouse driver and the other
>logitech serial mouse driver with no success.
>Thanks in advance.
Try the Microsoft Intellimouse Driver which is downloadable from the
Microsoft website
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John McCabe
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Claudio Bogado Pompa
> Microsoft website
Thank you John.
The intellimouse driver only gives more options to the 2 button mice from microsoft.
The mouse that I am talking is one of the old ones that have the PC-MS switch.
Do you know it that switch disables the middle button?
John McCabe
Pompa) wrote:
>jo...@nospam.demon.co.uk (John McCabe) wrote in message
>> Try the Microsoft Intellimouse Driver which is downloadable from the
>> Microsoft website
>
>Thank you John.
>The intellimouse driver only gives more options to the 2 button mice from microsoft.
What "Connected Device" did you set? On all the Microsoft mouses the
wheel is also a button that you can assign a function to. If you want
the wheel button to be treated as just the middle button for specific
applications it seems to work by going on to the "Wheel" tab on the
Intellipoint Software, selecting the "Advanced" button and add it to
the list in "Only disable....".
Of course you could "Disable all Intellipoint Software Wheel Support"
but I haven't tried that.
>The mouse that I am talking is one of the old ones that have the PC-MS switch.
>Do you know it that switch disables the middle button?
I don't know what the PC-MS switch is! Can you tell me more?
I don't know about mouse prices is Paraguay, but in the UK you can get
a 2 button + wheel (i.e. 3 button) mouse for less than the cost of a
pint of beer.
Claudio Bogado Pompa
> What "Connected Device" did you set?
> On all the Microsoft mouses the
> wheel is also a button that you can assign a function to. If you want
> the wheel button to be treated as just the middle button for specific
> applications it seems to work by going on to the "Wheel" tab on the
> Intellipoint Software, selecting the "Advanced" button and add it to
> the list in "Only disable....".
I did not try that.
>
> Of course you could "Disable all Intellipoint Software Wheel Support"
> but I haven't tried that.
>
> >The mouse that I am talking is one of the old ones that have the PC-MS switch.
> >Do you know it that switch disables the middle button?
>
> I don't know what the PC-MS switch is! Can you tell me more?
Old mouses had a switch for PC mode and MS (Microsoft) mode. I don't
know why they had that, but when I set the mouse in PC mode, Windows
does not find the mouse, but when in MS mode it does. I suspect that
in PC mode you have to tell to load the driver in the autoexec.bat.
What I think is that the MS mode disables de third mouse button
because all serial mice with 3 buttons use to work with the logitech
serial mouse driver.
> I don't know about mouse prices is Paraguay, but in the UK you can get
> a 2 button + wheel (i.e. 3 button) mouse for less than the cost of a
> pint of beer.
Mice are cheap here too, the problem I have is that I work with a
program that uses the third button of the mouse, my PC does not have
PS/2 port for mouse, and all mice that sells here with 3 buttons are
PS/2 and not serial.
Serial mice only come with 2 buttons.
I could solve my problem buying a PS/2 serial adapter, but I did not
find it here.
John McCabe
Pompa) wrote:
>> I don't know about mouse prices is Paraguay, but in the UK you can get
>> a 2 button + wheel (i.e. 3 button) mouse for less than the cost of a
>> pint of beer.
>
>Mice are cheap here too, the problem I have is that I work with a
>program that uses the third button of the mouse, my PC does not have
>PS/2 port for mouse, and all mice that sells here with 3 buttons are
>PS/2 and not serial.
>Serial mice only come with 2 buttons.
>I could solve my problem buying a PS/2 serial adapter, but I did not
>find it here.
Have a look here:
I have one of these at home and it's pretty good. None of the latin
american logitech sites have it listed though, so you'd have to get it
from Europe.
DONALD G. DAVIS
>I could solve my problem buying a PS/2 serial adapter, but I did not
>find it here.
An adapter will work only if the mouse has a hardware PS/2 /
serial switch. Serial and PS/2 have different circuitry; nonswitchable
mice will not work if plugged into the other type of port with an adapter.
--Donald Davis