Hi guys,
I have an MS Intellimouse Optical with the Intellipoint 4.1 software/drivers installed. Recently, I noticed that the 2 extra buttons no longer do anything other than click, so I thought maybe the settings are wrong. I went to Control Panel->Mouse and then noticed that the "Connected Device" listbox is empty, with no available options, and all 5 buttons are set as "Click". When I try to manually set the buttons up and/or restore the defaults, the software gives me 2 errors, "You must assign the "Click" command to one, and only one, pointing device button", then "An error occured while Windows was working with the Control Panel file C:\WINNT\System32\main.cpl".
The weird thing is that when I go over to Mouse->Hardware, "Microsoft USB Intellimouse Optical(Intellipoint)" is detected, and "this device is working properly" is stated.
Here's what I tried to no avail:
Rebooted system
Disabled, then enabled mouse
Uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers.
Uninstalled X-Setup, a Windows tweaking program that I've downloaded recently(some of the mouse properties I messed around with might have caused the problem)
btw I'm running Windows 2000 SP3.
*Edit* I forgot to mention that I'm running 2 mice - a MS Intellimouse Optical USB and a Logitech FirstMouse PS/2. They were working together just fine before, and still work together right now, except the Intellipoint software doesn't recognize the Intellimouse Optical, and hence the extra 2 buttons can't be used. I tried plugging out the Logitech mouse and rebooted, sure enough, the Intellipoint software now recognized my Intellimouse Optical. Plugged the Logitech back in and rebooted, same problem again. I really need both mice on my computer, any ideas?
Does anyone know what's going on? Please advise...
Thanks!
I have an MS Intellimouse Optical with the Intellipoint 4.1 software/drivers installed. Recently, I noticed that the 2 extra buttons no longer do anything other than click, so I thought maybe the settings are wrong. I went to Control Panel->Mouse and then noticed that the "Connected Device" listbox is empty, with no available options, and all 5 buttons are set as "Click". When I try to manually set the buttons up and/or restore the defaults, the software gives me 2 errors, "You must assign the "Click" command to one, and only one, pointing device button", then "An error occured while Windows was working with the Control Panel file C:\WINNT\System32\main.cpl".
The weird thing is that when I go over to Mouse->Hardware, "Microsoft USB Intellimouse Optical(Intellipoint)" is detected, and "this device is working properly" is stated.
Here's what I tried to no avail:
Rebooted system
Disabled, then enabled mouse
Uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers.
Uninstalled X-Setup, a Windows tweaking program that I've downloaded recently(some of the mouse properties I messed around with might have caused the problem)
btw I'm running Windows 2000 SP3.
*Edit* I forgot to mention that I'm running 2 mice - a MS Intellimouse Optical USB and a Logitech FirstMouse PS/2. They were working together just fine before, and still work together right now, except the Intellipoint software doesn't recognize the Intellimouse Optical, and hence the extra 2 buttons can't be used. I tried plugging out the Logitech mouse and rebooted, sure enough, the Intellipoint software now recognized my Intellimouse Optical. Plugged the Logitech back in and rebooted, same problem again. I really need both mice on my computer, any ideas?
Does anyone know what's going on? Please advise...
Thanks!
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