Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical 1.1a Usb Drivers For Mac
There's this thing in the internet about Microsoft Intellimouse and Optical Sensors. I saw a local online vendor in our country selling them(used) for around US$ 5.50 each or US$ 4.50 for every bulk of 10 pieces and above. I decided to get three of them. All of them are still in good condition and functional, and needs some cleaning after I bought. It has a bit of discoloration or yellowing - which is common with white or light colored unprotected ABS plastics when exposed to UV over time.
Side-by-side with my G500s(daily driver). The ambidextrous shape of the mouse and its size makes it comfortable to use by people with medium to large hands. The closest mouse I can think of that represents the shape of the Intellimouse is the Steelseries Sensei. The IntelliMouse series is often credited for: Microsoft being one of the first mouse vendors to introduce a scroll wheel, an optical mouse, and dedicated forward- and back-buttons on the side of the mouse for easier web-browsing. Even with all the praise for this mouse, it still can't replace my G500s as my daily driver, because of the following: 1) The mouse is light. I like it to have some weight, to have a balance speed and control.
2) Left and right side buttons are soft and mushy. It makes me feel not to use this buttons often. 3) Very low sensitivity(DPI). Not very useful on my 1080p display. I always use my G500s on this with 3200 DPI and 500 MHz polling rate to minimize the needed mouse travel. 4) Materials used could have been better.
Side buttons paint coat will fade with often use. The white body shell is not covered with UV-resistant coating and will suffer discoloration or yellowing over time. After all of that, it's still cool to own one of these mice. What's the screen resolution of the display that you're using? I'm having a hard time using the IO 1.1 in my 1080p display with its low DPI sensor, even on my laptop that has a 1366x768 screen res. It maybe because I'm used to less mouse travel when my G500s that is set to 3200 DPI.
All of them has X08. The seller told me that it was just a package sent to her from China. I'm not from the US also. That's a nice a mod you did there.
I didn't like the side buttons on this because it feels mushy. I'm curious on how you sleeved the USB cable. Does your mouse also have a plastic thing in the cable similar to this?
I'm thinking that it might get in the way of your sleeving. I use 1920x1080 for desktop and gaming.
I am used to it. Certainly a matter of getting used to. For cable modding w/ paracord I - remove the plastic - remove the shielding - cut the usb plug or the pcb plug (depends on whats less work) - sleeving w/ paracord - use some heatshrink to fix the ends - solder new usb or new pcb plug The plastic thing is normally a magnet and I removed it iirc. I always replace mouse cable of my mice. I like the very very light feel of a thin sleeved cable. What stands 'PH' for in your profile? Well, I've never had a concern about the side buttons in the IMO — they always seemed fine to me.
The holes for the side buttons had sharp edges that were irritating (I bought all mine new). For me the chief flaw is the persistent spurious wheel events that plague me every day. If I ever find another mouse that has a) a good wheel, b) ambidextrous buttons 4 and 5 (one left, one right), and c) circuitry that works (i.e. Not Microsoft, as their mice stink), I'll take all my IMOs and smash them up with a hammer in revenge for years of being scrolled up and down, sent to the wrong image in IrfanView and wrong tab in Firefox, etc. I also get spurious pointer events on button down/up but that mostly only affects selection rectangles in image editors (solved by Irfan when he added in much better keyboard selection control for me, and undone by the headache of trying to manipulate the selection on a Poker II!) And no rubber coatings either as those end up looking like the mouse is disease-ridden or decomposing.
Dell mice are pretty good, but the IMO layout is fairly unusual. Wodan:I cleaned a couple of intellimice a little while ago. They were heavily used and nasty dirty. Took them completely apart, once you remove a couple of screws in the bottom you can really disassemble the mouse nicely. All parts except for the one controller/optical PCB went into the dishwasher at 50°C INCLUDING the mouse wheel. Got them perfectly clean and they reassembled nicely as well. I just hate other peoples gunk in my mouse.
In case anyone else tries cleaning their mouse. Becareful using hot water or something like a blow-dryer on the wmo scrollwheel, that shaft and sensor pegs, warps easily, and the rubber ring around the wheel may loosen as well. 03 Jun 2016, 18:32 tp4tissue Posts: 166 Joined: 03 Mar 2012, 01:10 DT Pro Member: -. Wodan:All parts except for the one controller/optical PCB went into the dishwasher at 50°C INCLUDING the mouse wheel.
Got them perfectly clean and they reassembled nicely as well. I just hate other peoples gunk in my mouse.
Unbelievable in that instead of using a little elbow grease you decide to use the Dishwasher. If I used my Mrs's Dishwasher to clean any of my cylinder heads, she'll first hit me in the head with the meat-tenderizer followed by drowning me in some bromelain.
In fact I wouldn't be alive after she finishes me off. The Kitchen is NEVER used to clean any of my toys or gadgets - Rule Number ONE, at our household. I've heard the complaints about using this mouse with 1080p monitors, but honestly i never had any issues. I guess i'm some sort of madman because i game on my 4K monitor with my intellimouse optical and i fucking love it. Where is the issue with the DPI present? Like what's the problem?
Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical 1.1a Usb Drivers For Mac Free
I literally cant tell 05 Oct 2018, 15:20 Pumaeggs Posts: 27 Joined: 28 Sep 2018, 15:23 Location: United States Main keyboard: Custom 60% blank keycaps, Vintage MX Blacks(Lubed) Main mouse: Microsoft Intelimouse optical 5 button (1998) Favorite switch: Buckling Spring(NC) /Alps integrated rubber dome DT Pro Member: -.
I am currently using a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical with Mountain Lion. The latest Microsoft driver works, with one caveat - I have to go into System Preferences every time I boot, and click on 'Microsoft Mouse' to activate the driver. Its a bit of an annoyance, but I love this mouse. I program the side and wheel buttons to do various things like close current browser tab/window and move 'back'. I guess its a longshot, but does anyone know if this still works in Mavericks? I'm hesitant to upgrade because of this (as well as some other app compatibility). I am currently using a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical with Mountain Lion.
The latest Microsoft driver works, with one caveat - I have to go into System Preferences every time I boot, and click on 'Microsoft Mouse' to activate the driver. Its a bit of an annoyance, but I love this mouse. I program the side and wheel buttons to do various things like close current browser tab/window and move 'back'. I guess its a longshot, but does anyone know if this still works in Mavericks? I'm hesitant to upgrade because of this (as well as some other app compatibility). I am currently using a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical with Mountain Lion.
The latest Microsoft driver works, with one caveat - I have to go into System Preferences every time I boot, and click on 'Microsoft Mouse' to activate the driver. Its a bit of an annoyance, but I love this mouse. I program the side and wheel buttons to do various things like close current browser tab/window and move 'back'. I guess its a longshot, but does anyone know if this still works in Mavericks? I'm hesitant to upgrade because of this (as well as some other app compatibility).
I am currently using a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical with Mountain Lion. The latest Microsoft driver works, with one caveat - I have to go into System Preferences every time I boot, and click on 'Microsoft Mouse' to activate the driver. Its a bit of an annoyance, but I love this mouse. I program the side and wheel buttons to do various things like close current browser tab/window and move 'back'. I guess its a longshot, but does anyone know if this still works in Mavericks?
I'm hesitant to upgrade because of this (as well as some other app compatibility). Click to expand.I created an account JUST so I could answer this for you as I know the answer and it is nice to have one posted. I was actually looking up a different problem with mavericks mouse when i saw this one.
SOLUTION: reason you are having to click on the mouse in system preferences to activate the drivers is because the MicrosoftMouseHelper.app is not auto-launching. This is probably due to the driver not updated yet.
All you need to do is go into your sys prefs users login items and add the app mentioned above at this location (just use the go-to-folder in finder). /Library/PreferencePanes/Microsoft Mouse.prefPane/Contents/Resources/MicrosoftMouseHelper.app As for your hesitancy to upgrade, I just went from Snow Leopard to Mavericks and so far there are only small pitfalls. If you are in ML, I am betting it is only an upgrade as i keep reading that 'this is fixed in mavericks.' The mouse issue I am having is a big pain though. It has only happened twice so far, and it means I have to at least log out to fix it.
The mouse disappears. The cursor i mean.
The physical mouse still is active, buttons work, but there is NO POINTER anywhere. It seems to happen when i hit my expose corner, err my bad, mission control to show all apps, then it disappears.
As for suggestions, I did not do an upgrade, i did a full clean install. My computer is a macbook pro 17' early 2011. Oh and finally, you DO NOT want to use usb overdrive. The reason why the microsoft mouse stands above the rest for mac, is because it has the microsoft acceleration built into the drivers.
What this means is how far it travels based on how far you move the mouse and and what speed you did it at. This is the ONE thing I have always praised microsoft over mac, was mac's acceleration never felt natural compared to a windows machine. (keep in mind I have not used a native acceleration in a LONG time so maybe it is better now in recent OS updates). Click to expand.Thanks for the reply. When I go to my Library folder and follow the path above, I get to PreferencePanes but do not have any sub-folders. I see the file Microsoft Mouse.prefPane, so I added that. When I boot the pane comes up, so I've saved one step (I don't have to go into settings any more), but I still have to close the mouse pane.
Is this the intended result? Of course I'd like to have it just activate without me having to do anything. And to confirm, this Microsoft driver works in Mavericks? Thanks for the reply. When I go to my Library folder and follow the path above, I get to PreferencePanes but do not have any sub-folders. I see the file Microsoft Mouse.prefPane, so I added that.
When I boot the pane comes up, so I've saved one step (I don't have to go into settings any more), but I still have to close the mouse pane. Is this the intended result?
Of course I'd like to have it just activate without me having to do anything. And to confirm, this Microsoft driver works in Mavericks? I created an account JUST so I could answer this for you as I know the answer and it is nice to have one posted.
I was actually looking up a different problem with mavericks mouse when i saw this one. SOLUTION: reason you are having to click on the mouse in system preferences to activate the drivers is because the MicrosoftMouseHelper.app is not auto-launching. This is probably due to the driver not updated yet. All you need to do is go into your sys prefs users login items and add the app mentioned above at this location (just use the go-to-folder in finder). /Library/PreferencePanes/Microsoft Mouse.prefPane/Contents/Resources/MicrosoftMouseHelper.app As for your hesitancy to upgrade, I just went from Snow Leopard to Mavericks and so far there are only small pitfalls. If you are in ML, I am betting it is only an upgrade as i keep reading that 'this is fixed in mavericks.' The mouse issue I am having is a big pain though.
It has only happened twice so far, and it means I have to at least log out to fix it. The mouse disappears. The cursor i mean.
The physical mouse still is active, buttons work, but there is NO POINTER anywhere. It seems to happen when i hit my expose corner, err my bad, mission control to show all apps, then it disappears. As for suggestions, I did not do an upgrade, i did a full clean install. My computer is a macbook pro 17' early 2011. Oh and finally, you DO NOT want to use usb overdrive. The reason why the microsoft mouse stands above the rest for mac, is because it has the microsoft acceleration built into the drivers.
What this means is how far it travels based on how far you move the mouse and and what speed you did it at. This is the ONE thing I have always praised microsoft over mac, was mac's acceleration never felt natural compared to a windows machine. (keep in mind I have not used a native acceleration in a LONG time so maybe it is better now in recent OS updates).