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    Need a small notebook mouse with 4 buttons

    Discussion in 'Accessories' started by joms, Jul 28, 2006.

  1. joms

    joms Notebook Consultant

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    Can someone recommend me a small notebook mouse with 4 buttons... prefereably wireless.

    I normally use the third button (pushing down the scroll wheel) to COPY texts while the 4th button (usually near the thumb) would be assigned as a PASTE button.

    I looked at logitech, microsoft and keninston but all of their notebook mouse only have 3 buttons.....

    On the other hand, the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse 4000 has a 4th button but i think this is used as a "magnifier" button. My question is, can i re program it in the Microsoft program to assign it to another function (perhaps as "PASTE").

    anyone knows if this can be done?

    Thanks
     
    joms, Jul 28, 2006
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  2. mystery

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    Umm, why don't you just use CTRL+C, CTRL+V to copy/paste?
     
    mystery, Jul 28, 2006
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    if you install the driver for it from a cd or download, yes, you can remap buttons. if you let windows autodetect and autoinstall the mouse on without the additional software, then you won't be able to remap.
     
    dragonesse, Jul 28, 2006
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  4. joms

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    dragonesse - I understand that for most mouse out there, installing their intended drivers would let you be able to configure and remap the buttons but are you sure that i can do that with the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse 4000? the 4th button seems to be specialized as a magnifier button and i want to be 100% sure that it can be remaped before buying the mouse.
     
    joms, Jul 28, 2006
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    anyone else?
     
    joms, Jul 30, 2006
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    skierjs Newbie

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    The logitech V400 has an up/down rocker button in addition to the 2 regular mouse buttons and the scroll wheel(w/side to side scroll). And all of the buttons can be remapped to whatever you need using the logitech software.
     
    skierjs, Jul 30, 2006
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  7. Daetlus

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    Some of us work or have worked in data entry. I used to have to copy and paste several thousand times a day. It can make a huge difference in that case.
     
    Daetlus, Jul 30, 2006
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    evoMR Notebook Guru

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    the Microsoft 6000 notebook mouse is pretty good...its the one im using now and its pretty comfortable....there doesnt seem to be alot of buttons...only left/right click, a magnify button and the scroll button
     
    evoMR, Jul 31, 2006
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  9. Jmmmmm

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    I have the logitech v400 and it has 4 buttons, all programmable. It actually has 7 programmable 'buttons', though:
    1. left click
    2. right click
    3 & 4. the two buttons next to the left click
    5. pushing straight down on the scrollwheel
    6. pushing scrollwheel to the left
    7. pushing scrollwheel to the right

    And cut, copy, paste, etc are options for them all.
     
    Jmmmmm, Jul 31, 2006
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  10. joms

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    evoMR/Jmmmm - is the MS MS6000 or the Logitech V400 considered as a notebook mouse? I also need them to be small....

    Evo - the 6000 has 4 buttons but can you reprogam each to do different funstions? thanks
     
    joms, Jul 31, 2006
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    Jmmmmm, Jul 31, 2006
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