Intellimouse Explorer USB - no Vista support?

Posted: 02-16-2007, 09:41 PM

Paul Speller

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Have Microsoft really turned their backs on their older mice?

The Vista-compatible version of IntelliPoint (v6) only seems to support
Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 and up, but I have an original Intellimouse
Explorer USB, which works fine under XP.

Under Vista I can get a basic level of functionality, but I can't customise
what the extra thumb buttons do. Surely it wouldn't be hard to add support
for this mouse to IntelliPoint 6? I tried setting it up using the
Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 driver (it didn't work, of course) and it looks
like that has exactly the same buttons as this mouse, so surely the drivers
can't be all that different?

I never thought that the one bit of hardware that would stop me upgrading to
Microsoft's latest operating system would be the one bit of hardware that
Microsoft themselves made! Very disappointing

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IDICWorld

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RE: Intellimouse Explorer USB - no Vista support?

Posted: 02-17-2007, 03:47 AM

I agree - and I'll trying to get is my wheel to scroll - SO annoying! I am
also unable to commnuicate with my (new) Linksys wireless printserver -
rendering my (new) HP Laserjet printer unavailable from my Vista machine.
Had to set up my old XP computer again! Can't wait for all this to be sorted
out; I really DO like ths no O/S!
~Deborah Witmer

"Paul Speller" wrote:

> Have Microsoft really turned their backs on their older mice?
>
> The Vista-compatible version of IntelliPoint (v6) only seems to support
> Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 and up, but I have an original Intellimouse
> Explorer USB, which works fine under XP.
>
> Under Vista I can get a basic level of functionality, but I can't customise
> what the extra thumb buttons do. Surely it wouldn't be hard to add support
> for this mouse to IntelliPoint 6? I tried setting it up using the
> Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 driver (it didn't work, of course) and it looks
> like that has exactly the same buttons as this mouse, so surely the drivers
> can't be all that different?
>
> I never thought that the one bit of hardware that would stop me upgrading to
> Microsoft's latest operating system would be the one bit of hardware that
> Microsoft themselves made! Very disappointing

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