![]() Fine, it is what it is so I go get the slimblade. Now on Windows 7 and suddenly this thing is useless…its too slow, control panel will not speed it up, mouse works and all the button functionality are gone and I am pissed because Kensington says its not going to be updated. I tried the ones from Logitech and didn’t like them and finally I found the Mouse Expert Pro…HEAVEN! I got one for the office and one for the house. I few years ago I made the switch from mouse to track ball. I have had Carpal Tunnel for several years. ![]() The third camp is made up of people with limited mobility in their arms or people suffering from RSI, or even birth defects that limit their ability to move their arms in the ways that many of the rest of us do.To be clear, I fall into the first camp, due to me having a trackball I keep connected for those oh-so-often times I photoshop pictures of (insert joke about your mother here).Broaden your horizons. The second camp being people using workstations connected to machinery, like you'd find in a semiconductor fab or an auto-plant, where having a free-ranging cursor is nice, but there isn't room for a free-ranging mouse, and a trackball solvers this problem perfectly. The first being graphic designers, CAD drafters, architects, engineers, basically anyone who needs precision. Quote:Originally posted by Black_Obsidian:The only trackball-using freak I know is my cousin while a funny piece of a sentence, people who use trackballs aren't freaks. I need that software to make the extra buttons do something other than their default back/forward, but Windows handles the defaults just fine. The MX518 I'm using right now has 4, all of which work fine, without the custom software that came with it. They must also be doing something strange for that to be the case, as, like Ardax said, Windows has no problem with multi-button mice. Not that I've ever purchased anything from Kensington (they've always struck me as the budget version of Logitech/MS, when those two aren't too expensive in the first place), but if what you say is true, that's just sad. If Kensington is selling hardware right now that doesn't work on current operating systems, then shame on them. What I said obviously only applies to old hardware. The other two cannot be mapped for other functions. Only two of those buttons would work under Vista or Windows 7 and the trackball costs $75-$100. The fact is that there are current Kensington trackballs which have four buttons. Quote:Originally posted by reset:Thanks for the tough love even though it's way off base. They say the four button trackball is Vista certified but there is no mouseworks software available for Vista or Windows 7. It works across all the Expert trackballs, the current ones with four buttons as well as the older ones with four buttons and an additional series of buttons at the very top.So perhaps they should be labeled for XP/Mac. The mouseworks software works well, is highly customizable and one of the reason to use these Kensington trackballs. ![]() So, uh, standard hardware for the win? Thanks for the tough love even though it's way off base. In the future, I'd suggest that it is unwise to expect weirdo hardware to be supported by any newer OS than whatever it supports right out of the box.The only trackball-using freak I know is my cousin, and her Logitech Mouseman just plain worked when I plugged it into her laptop after installing Windows 7 RTM. So you've got a piece of custom hardware that was released almost six years ago (January 2004, as far as Google can see), and you're upset that it has exactly the same software support as it did when you bought it. Quote:Originally posted by Black_Obsidian:If Kensington never made Vista drivers for the thing, that rather implies that it's older than Vista.
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