Microsoft wheel mouse optical vs intellimouse

I'm sorry to see that they've taken one of the most flexible OS and hidden and locked down much of the configuration options. I guess they're trying to be like Apple. Details required : characters remaining Cancel Submit people found this reply helpful. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.

I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Previous Next. Hi, Thank you for posting your queries in Microsoft Community. I suggest you to download the latest available driver and install in compatibility mode and check if that helps. Please download the driver from the following site.

How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Ian Haynes. In reply to A. User's post on November 1, The driver download page you give above doesn't have any drivers for Windows 8 or In reply to Ian Haynes's post on November 1, Method 2: Step 1: Uninstall and reinstall the mouse drivers from the manufacture's website and check, if it works. Step 2: If the issue still persists, I would suggest you to uninstall the mouse driver and reinstall the latest mouse driver in compatibility mode and check, if it works.

Kindly post back with the updated issue for further assistance. Thank you. In reply to bstro's post on November 1, In reply to hardy67's post on February 16, The only solution is to buy a new mouse. Yours is not compatible. Mice are cheap now. I downloaded the Windows 7 driver and install using compatibility mode.

Its scroll wheel's got a subtler, less positive feel to it as well; which you prefer is a matter of taste. Even if you're an habitual Explorer user, you could get used to these ergonomic features easily enough. What you might find more annoying about the MouseMan Dual Optical is that it weighs noticeably more than the Microsoft opposition. There's nothing very special about the guts of the Wheel Mouse Optical, but getting at them is trickier than usual. The mouse has screws under its back two feet, but it's also got clips under its front two feet.

So you have to completely de-foot the mouse to get it apart, and then fiddle with a little flat-head screwdriver or similar prodder in order to get the clips to release.

The lid of the Wheel Mouse Optical's entirely unremarkable, but its tail-light piece is a separate bit of plastic. If you're the type that's itching to implant more LEDs or dye the thing purple or install a cooling fan or something, this may matter to you. The new model Explorer is held together with four screws, all under the feet, as bleeding usual.

Inside it, the only obvious innovation is that the side button microswitches The Explorer 3. Getting into the Dual Optical is refreshingly easy. You don't have to peel any feet off, because the two lid-fixing screws are out in the open.

The Dual Optical's five tiny feet wouldn't be adequate to cover a screw, anyway. Inside, the circuit board is understandably somewhat congested. But the interesting part is much less complex. Since it's dead easy to take off the Dual Optical's lid without mangling the feet, removing this weight would be a simple task for anybody who'd rather have a lighter mouse. Microsoft's original IntelliMouse with IntelliEye which I reviewed some time ago here has a similar lump of metal in it, and is similarly user-lightenable.

If you have to use your mouse on non-optimal surfaces - the top of a somewhat shiny equipment case, your leg, carpet - then the dual sensor MouseMan seems to stand the best chance of keeping your pointer on track. On any proper mousing surface that isn't shiny or see-through, though, there's no difference between the basic tracking abilities of any of these mouses, and the Explorer 3.

It's very pleasingly styled, you don't have to be right handed to use it, and it tracks more than well enough for most users. If you want to stock an office with mouses, you could do a lot worse than shell out for a crate of these.

If you look past the dual-sensor hype, there's definitely nothing wrong with the MouseMan Dual Optical, and you may well prefer it to the Explorer 3. The only way to tell for sure is by using both mouses. But no right-hander is likely to be particularly annoyed by either. There are, by the way, new features in the IntelliPoint driver software that Microsoft are bundling with their current mouses, but there's no need to spend a cent to get that.

You can get the new scroll-wheel-acceleration feature and so on for free by downloading IntelliPoint 4 from Microsoft here. Logitech's MouseWare software can, similarly, be had for nothing from here. Microsoft's page for the Wheel Mouse Optical. Microsoft's page for the IntelliMouse Explorer. Logitech's page for the MouseMan Dual Optical.

Buy a mouse! Aus PC Market doesn't sell these products any more click here to see their current mouse-related products , but you can still try a price search at DealTime! The computing world seems to be settling pretty solidly towards making "mice" the plural of "mouse", whether you're talking about rodents or input devices. Personally, I prefer "mouses" when I'm talking about the computer peripheral, and "mice" when talking about the animals of which my overweight cat manages to catch about one a year.

Since the "mouses" usage enhances the clarity of the language, I don't see anything wrong with it. Hackish English usage prefers irregular plurals because they're entertaining, so "mice" is often used by IT gurus.

But that's not a big win for that usage, because the same people, for the same reason, also say that the plural of "spouse" should be " spice ".

Last modified Dec I remember when mouses had balls. Let's start with the simple mouse. Wheel Mouse Optical This is Microsoft's current entry level optical wheelie-mouse, but it's still not a bargain-basement product.

Want a show-off see-through base-plate? So let's get freaky. IntelliMouse Explorer 3. I have tried putting the mouse into different USB ports; upon doing this, my systray shows "Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical detected" but the wheel click still doesn't do anything. I have an old version of Intellipoint 4. Thanks very much, -Jeff. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.

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