How to configure buttons to Microsoft mouse?

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How to configure buttons to Microsoft mouse?

I just plugged in a Microsoft Comfort Optical Mouse 3000 and to my surprise, it worked right away for primary and secondary clicks and the scroller. However, there is another side button that isn't being used right now. I'd like to assign that to Expose. Is there any way to do that? Thanks

2.0 ghz Aluminum MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.5), 2gb RAM 160gb HDD

Posted on Dec 17, 2008 7:52 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 17, 2008 7:58 PM in response to iwuhoops388

Mac OS X has support for two button mice and scroll wheels built-in. That mouse has no Macintosh drivers from Microsoft. If you can't configure them using the Mouse/Keyboard System Preferences, then you may not be able to assign them. You may be able to use a third party driver like SteerMouse.

-Doug

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deltatux

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Dec 17, 2008 10:40 PM in response to iwuhoops388

iwuhoops38 wrote:
I just plugged in a Microsoft Comfort Optical Mouse 3000 and to my surprise, it worked right away for primary and secondary clicks and the scroller. However, there is another side button that isn't being used right now. I'd like to assign that to Expose. Is there any way to do that? Thanks

Try Microsoft Mouse's Intellipoint Drivers for Macs: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/download/DownloadResult.aspx?category=MK&type= Mouse&name=mcom3000&os=macmk&lang=en

deltatux

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