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re: Question about 'Use the Third Mouse Button'
Wednesday, January 8, 2003 at 5:19 am
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Posted by triplate (4621 messages posted)

Try unplugging the mouse and rebooting...it,ll tell you you"no mouse detected"....re-plug the mouseand let Win find it again......If your not comfortable with keyboard controls only....dont do this...in case it fails..

On Wednesday, January 8, 2003 at 1:16 am, Gareth Burge wrote:
>I have a question about Use
>the Third Mouse Button:

>
>Thanks for the useful info.
>
>I have a problem however with the third mouse button (TMB). After upgrading to XP,
>the TMB now defaults to double-click. The control panel in XP only has three buttons
>defined, whereas before there were four (the thumb button). Now the thumb button
>double-clicks, and I can't see any way of somehow modifying this setting or getting
>the 'old', 4-button mouse control panel back, even attempting to re-install the older
>Logitech drivers does not work. The generic Mouseware drivers from Logitech do not
>'add' the fourth thumb button either...
>
>Any help would be extremely appreciated. Thanks.
>

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Question about 'Use the Third Mouse Button' (Gareth Burge: Wed, Jan 8, 2003, 1:16 am)

re: Question about 'Use the Third Mouse Button' (triplate: Wed, Jan 8, 2003, 5:19 am)

re: Question about 'Use the Third Mouse Button' (appelis: Sun, Apr 20, 2003, 8:42 am)

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