- Microsoft standard wireless optical mouse support install#
- Microsoft standard wireless optical mouse support mod#
- Microsoft standard wireless optical mouse support update#
- Microsoft standard wireless optical mouse support driver#
- Microsoft standard wireless optical mouse support portable#
3.188\mousekeyboardcenter\setup64\files‘ folder and copy the whole section Now open the ‘ipointdevices.xml’ from your extracted In case you mess up, make a backup copy of the current used file calledįiles\Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center’ folder. Just imagine copying a paragraph of text from one document to another. Next bit requires copying some lines from one XML to another. ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center\Models’. Of the currently installed ‘Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center’ folder which should be in its default location of (you’ll see the other sidewinderX3Mouse folders etc but just grab the sidewinder one)
‘.\MouseKeyboardCenter_64bit_ENG_2.3.188\mousekeyboardcenter\setup64\files\ models’ folder,
Microsoft standard wireless optical mouse support install#
Now you have to copy the ‘sidewinder’ folder to the current install.įrom the from the extracted 2.3 install exe. It still didn’t show up in the Center so have to do the next step.
Microsoft standard wireless optical mouse support driver#
Went from theĬrappy MS 2006 driver to an MS SideWinder 2013 driver.
Microsoft standard wireless optical mouse support update#
(This step probably isn’t totally necessary but I think it’s better to have the proper driver)įrom Device Manager, I clicked on my mouse that just said ‘HID-compliant mouse’ and said to update the driver and pointed it to the extracted folder and it found it straight away.
Microsoft standard wireless optical mouse support portable#
I used WinRAR to extract them but you can justĪs easily use the free 7-zip or PeaZip or something (use a portable version if you don’t want to install them). This is easy as they are a self-extracting zip packaged as an exe file. We need access to the files in the downloads WITHOUT having to install them. MouseKeyboardCenter_64bit_ENG_2.3.188.exe MouseKeyboardCenter_64bit_ENG_2.1.177.exe Both of these contain the drivers, XML settings,įiles were called this. I could potentially make a video if anyone really needs it but I think what’s here should be easy enoughĬlose your Mouse and Keyboard Center if it’s running.įirstly I downloaded some of the last known working versions of the software that supported my Microsoft Sidewinder Gaming Mouse, which was 2.1 and 2.3. I tried to write it to help people of all technical levels. Very annoying.Īnd please, no canned posts offering generic info and pleading for a thumbs up. Since this works quite easily, I’d have to assume that this would work with other legacy mice and keyboards that Microsoft has for some reason stopped supporting. If so, it’s as simple as just copying the 50+ lines for your deviceįrom the old XML file, back into the new one.
Microsoft standard wireless optical mouse support mod#
I’m hoping this mod is persistent through the next update of the Mouse and Keyboard Center! I imagine an update would happen when they add new models for sale so there’s a high chance the **The only weird thing I've noticed so far is when I left click the 'copy' button in my screenshot program, it doesn't add it to the clipboard. It didn’t let me assign anything to the little grey button on the top right at the back but it was an unassignable button in the old software and OS too that just opened the Games Explorer in Vista.Īnd the front side one was a macro recording button or something and it’s also unassignable. Everything works like middle mouse wheel speed, button assigning including shortcut keys and macros,ĭPI sensitivity for each of the 3 buttons, app-specific settings etc. This method works fine, just like they mentioned for version 3.2 of Mouse and Keyboard Center. Latest Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center v11.1.137.0 so you get all the current mouse and keyboard models, PLUS the old faithful ones! Please don’t waste your time and OS compatibility by installingġ0+ year old software like IntelliPoint that is sure to just bring new headaches to deal with.
I did just like Steve and Giorgio did in the other thread I linked above, BUT with the I thought I’d start a new one that also hopefully has enough keywords to catch other people searching with similar problems.īEST SOLUTION. Where the 2 guys posted a few lines about how they got it working but that thread is locked. Lucky for me some other guys already basically came up with a way to make it work! So now it was either start a bi-weekly support group or find a way to make it work. A quick search in Google showed I wasn’t alone.
I just had an empty grey screen to look at, which luckily didn’t reflect my falling I was dismayed to see that it wouldn’t show up in the latest Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center. That I love and decided to bring out of retirement for another chance at glory. I have an old corded Microsoft Sidewinder Gaming Mouse