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How do I use the third mouse key?

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by wolf

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I'd like to know what patches or software I need in order to make use of my third mouse key. The mouse is a Logitech 'Mouseman', model 'M-RC33', and I am running it under Win 98. I've been given to understand that Win 98 does not support third keyusage on mouses (mice? meese?), but believe that there must be a workaround to this limitation. Neither the Microsoft or the Logitech sites are helpful in this regard. Will someone please help me? Thanks.

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by rockyolson

Hi I am using a 4 button and scrool wheel mouse and works fine so windows. Iwould go with the suggestion in the first answer and download the proper program for your mouse, everthing should be just fine then. rockyolson@charter.net

by rockyolson

Hi I am using a 4 button and scrool wheel mouse and works fine so windows. Iwould go with the suggestion in the first answer and download the proper program for your mouse, everthing should be just fine then. rockyolson@charter.net

by dixon_fe

Your mouse "should" have come with a driver disk. If you go into your Control Panel and double-click the Mouse icon, you can set up your mouse buttons here.

I have a four button mouse w/ dual scrolling wheels. There are no limitations within Windows 98 as far as mouse, meese or mice buttons. Hmm? Maybe we should just call them Moose buttons. :)

Hope this works for ya.

Frank..

by baziite

Use the Driver disk that comes with the mouse . It will have its own setup program which will also install utilities to change the mouse settings etc on the start menu or in control panel . If you don't have the driver disk you can find it on the internet . Remember that it will be a single file . You can execute this file to extract the driver package which will have its own setup program .

Good Luck !

by mikeaaaaaa1

We 8 engineering workstations. When using CAD
the third mouse button is very important. Recently, when updating the video drivers, we were no longer able to use the third button.
A download and install of the latest Logitech
mouseware drivers (v 9.0)did the trick. You can find the drivers at :
http://www.logitech.com/cf/support/mousefiles_pc.cfm

Good Luck

by shelleyt

Most mice come with only 2 buttons but there are some which comes with 3 buttons. To enable the third mouse button, you usually need a special driver. Seeing you have a Logitech 3-button mouse, you can set the middle mouse button to double-click with the following instructions.

Run the registry editor.
Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Logitech\Mouseware\CurrentVersion\SerialV\.
Select Find from the Edit menu, and search for double-click.
When you find a value (not a Key) named double-click, double-click on it, and change the 000 to 001.

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