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Generic, Multi-Purpose Mouse Driver?

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by tehchodja

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I recently got what seems to be an off-brand mouse for my laptop. 10 bucks. Works like a charm.

The only irritation is that it has three extra buttons and doesn't have any drivers for it whatsoever (I asked the seller). They said it's strictly plug'n play.

I was wondering if anyone knew of any generic drivers that might be able to help me out with assigning functions to these extra buttons?

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by seanferd

So, you need something not so generic, if the generic mouse drivers aren't working.

Since you don't mention the brand of mouse or what OS you are running, I couldn't even guess where to look for a driver, if you need one.

Did you uninstall the previous mouse from Device Manager before removing it and attaching the new mouse?

by tehchodja

I usually miss out information.

Umm... I'm using Vista and the brand of the mouse is...well...generic. It doesn't particularly have a brand name. I got it off eBay. lol.

The Windows mouse driver is working fine, I'm able to use the mouse and everything. I was just wondering if there was a solution that might allow me to assign different functions to these three extra buttons on the mouse. Currently they just do the whole "backwards," "forwards," "nothing at all" functions.

by brian

its an extremely long shot, but has worked for me in the past...try logitecs software for their gaming mice.

by seanferd

have you looked at the mouse settings in control panel?

Is the eBay page for the mouse still around?

by tehchodja

It just gives the usual mouse options. Doesn't go into button depth.

The page is still around, but I already asked the vendor directly if there was a driver. He said it was just a plug-n-play product.

by seanferd

http://www.webupd8.org/2009/03/reassign-mouse-buttons-specific.html

http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/
(I've used this for keyboard purposes before - hey, I still have it installed!) Quite versatile.

Especially if you already are an AHK user:
http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/misc/Remap.htm

Or remap via registry (example)
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/post-56216.html#56216

Generically:
http://www.google.com/search?&q=remap+mouse+buttons

http://www.google.com/search?q=reassign+mouse+buttons

For ideas that don't depend on my memory. ;)

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