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drainyoo · Dec 12, 2003, 09:39 AM

I dumped the Microsoft Mouse Pref Pane and restarted but I still cant set Expose to my extra buttons. Anyone know how I can get this to work?

Thanks.

d4nth3m4n · Dec 12, 2003, 09:52 AM

Originally posted by drainyoo:
I dumped the Microsoft Mouse Pref Pane and restarted but I still cant set Expose to my extra buttons. Anyone know how I can get this to work?

Thanks.

you might have to get usb overdrive (think versiontracker). once you get that, you can bind the keys (the f keys by default) you use for expose to the buttons on the mouse. i think usb overdrive is nag-ware, so you dont have to worry about paying if you can deal with it. should work for you. good luck.

rphtechnology · Dec 12, 2003, 09:54 AM

Works fine on my machine. Running 10.3.1 with an Intelli Optical. Make sure you get the newest control panel @ versiontracker.com/macosx.

drainyoo · Dec 12, 2003, 10:00 AM

Originally posted by rphtechnology:
Works fine on my machine. Running 10.3.1 with an Intelli Optical. Make sure you get the newest control panel @ versiontracker.com/macosx.

You have the Microsoft Pref Pane installed and it works with EXPOSE?

drainyoo · Dec 12, 2003, 10:12 AM

Originally posted by d4nth3m4n:
you might have to get usb overdrive (think versiontracker). once you get that, you can bind the keys (the f keys by default) you use for expose to the buttons on the mouse. i think usb overdrive is nag-ware, so you dont have to worry about paying if you can deal with it. should work for you. good luck.

I got it to work. I had to check disable in the Microsoft Pane

d4nth3m4n · Dec 12, 2003, 10:17 AM

wait, how? did you have to download usb overdrive? please elaborate. glad to hear its working tho!

drainyoo · Dec 12, 2003, 10:43 AM

Originally posted by d4nth3m4n:
wait, how? did you have to download usb overdrive? please elaborate. glad to hear its working tho!

No I had it working with the Microsoft Pref Pane. I couldnt get the scroll wheel to move faster so I trashed the Microsoft Pref Pane and installed the USB OVERDRIVE. It does work at all. For some reason there is a driver thats controlling the mouse. Even USB OVERDRIVE cant controll it. Its so weird and driving me nuts!

CarbonG4 · Dec 12, 2003, 11:13 AM

drainyoo: rather than just deleting the prefpane, run the actual IntelliPoint uninstaller. I believe it is located in /Applications/Utilities/

I use Expose w/ the thumb buttons on my IntelliMouse Explorer (3.0) mouse just fine w/o the MS drivers.

In the Expose prefpane I have "all windows" set to Mouse Button 3 (which is the scroll wheel button), "app windows" to button 4 (the larger thumb button), and "desktop" to button 5 (the small thumb button)... anyway, blah

//Carbon

drainyoo · Dec 12, 2003, 11:17 AM

Originally posted by CarbonG4:
drainyoo: rather than just deleting the prefpane, run the actual IntelliPoint uninstaller. I believe it is located in /Applications/Utilities/

I use Expose w/ the thumb buttons on my IntelliMouse Explorer (3.0) mouse just fine w/o the MS drivers.

In the Expose prefpane I have "all windows" set to Mouse Button 3 (which is the scroll wheel button), "app windows" to button 4 (the larger thumb button), and "desktop" to button 5 (the small thumb button)... anyway, blah

//Carbon

I have IntelliMouse Explorer (3.0) as well but I cant get it work without the driver. I deleted everything that had to do with the driver, I rebooted and nothing. It wont map the functions. I did get it to work with the driver thought. I jsut set the expose to F10,11 and 12. Then I set the buttons in the Microsoft driver to those key and it works.

How did you get it to work without the driver?