Intellimouse is not very smart, I guess

[Felecha]

For a long time I have had a Microsoft Wheel Mouse and it was evidently set to using the Wheel Button Click for AutoScroll. I was using Windows 2000 Pro. A month ago I got permission from my boss to use the company's MSDN kit to install XP at home since I do a lot of programming work at home and there were several unused licenses available. so I did the upgrade and it was fine. Last week my hard drive died and I couldnt get my recent Ghost backup to recreate the system on the new harddrive I bought, so damn, I just went ahead and got the MSDN kit home again and did a fresh install of XP. The activation was accepted, to my relief, and everything has been no worse than all the details of restoring things.

Today I found that the mouse now uses the wheel button click to switch between open windows. I guess that when the new XP Plug and Play found the mouse it installed a newer version of IntelliPoint for it, for which the default wheel button action is not AutoScroll, as it must have been back with my W2K setup. So I looked around and found I could download different versions of IntelliPoint, and 5.02 gives me options to select the behavior, but choosing AutoScroll doesnt do it. I then found a 4.01 version and installed that, and it shows autoscroll as the default, and I rebooted and all that, and it still uses the wheel click for switching windows. I've tried everything I can think of, can't get it to do what I want.

I spend a certain amount of time reading long documents on the web or in Word, and the autoscroll is very nice - get it going, adjust it, and sit there and read without having to scroll manually.

Thanks

 

[Cares]

I think it isn't Intellimouse isn't very smart but more that the user isn't very smart.

Change the middle click into "Middle Click" in your IntelliPoint settings.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: AlphaQ
I think it isn't Intellimouse isn't very smart but more that the user isn't very smart.

Shut up troll.

 

[Felecha]

I don't see Middle Click anywhere, and I acknowledge I'm not as smart as I would like to be.

At this point I have 4.01 installed, so I'm looking at that for the settings window. I see on the Buttons tab, 3 combo boxes, for Left Button, Right Button, and Wheel Button.

 

[boomerang]

So if you go into the configuration, there is no Wheel Button dropdown under the Buttons tab?

I have the software installed because I have a trackball with additional buttons, but I believe that XP will recognize a scroll wheel mouse automatically and you can configure it through Control Panel. No software required.

You should have the options you need under that Wheel Button dropdown. AutoScroll is what you want.

Just thinking, it seems that during the install of the software, you are asked to pick which mouse you have. Could you have picked the wrong one?

And I still contend that if you have a two button mouse with a scroll wheel, that no software is required. Maybe an uninstall and then check in Control Panel for the settings you need?

 

[FlyingPenguin]

Switching between windows is NOT the default behavior of an Intellimouse,

Do you have the Intellipoint drivers installed - not required but with them you can define any action you want for the wheel or disable it.

 

[ShadowBlade]

it is on mine...

Next Window (default)

and there is also no "middle click" option
going by this, it would seem that the OP and i have the same intellimouse software and there is an "autoscroll" option in there

 

[RJR2006]

I don't have any problems with my Microsoft Intellimouse and I don't install the driver for it.

 

[TSCrv]

y not uninstall drivers and use defualt settiongs, that is if u jsut want the scroll thingy....

 

[Felecha]

I thought it might be that in the old days when I only had 2 usb ports, and I bought this Wheel Mouse Optical USB, i used the serial adapter that came with it. When I rebuilt for the new hard drive and I was poking around in an old retired machine for something I noticed the USB adapter card I bought back then and said hey, let's put that in and have more USB ports, and I started using the USB of the mouse. So I dug out the old serial adapter and tried that, but no luck.

i've tried several of the other options you can assign to the Wheel Button click and they seem to work. But when I go back to AutoScroll as an option the behavior goes back to window-switching.

It's not just that I will miss autoscroll, it's that I used it so much that it's a habit and when I do it without thinking, it switches my windows and that will be a habit to break, I guess.

I tried looking around the registry, figuring that's where the setting would reside, but nothing to conclude there.