K-corlew on 22/7/2014 at 17:07

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I can no longer setup my mouse to work as I want it to. I have MS Trackball Explorer 1.0. I have used this mouse to play Thief ever since Thief 1 came out. Now it seems that MS no longer supports this mouse and has blocked it being set up. A message pops up saying MS no longer supports it.

Does anyone have any idea of how I can get my mouse to work? If not, what kind of mouse do you use? I really need a optical trackball as the regular mice gives me motion dizziness.

Thanks.

Gryzemuis on 22/7/2014 at 21:24

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It looks like a device with regular mouse movement, 3 buttons and a mouse-wheel. Whenever I've put a generic mouse in my Windows-pc in the past, Windows always treated it like a generic mouse with a bunch of buttons. I wonder why Windows wouldn't do that in case your your trackball. When I re-install Windows, and have not yet installed any Logitech software, Windows treats my trackball like a generic mouse with 2 buttons.

I've been using Logitech's symmetrical trackball. Since 1999.
(http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/trackman-marble)
I like them. I will keep using them as long as they will be made.
They are symmetrical, which is handy, because I prefer to operate my trackball with my left hand. Very robust. Easy to clean. The downside is that they have only 2 real buttons. The other 2 small buttons can be used, but not very frequent, as they are inconvenient. Also there is no scrollwheel. But for the rest, I like a trackball like these better than any regular mouse.