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Microsoft IntelliPoint

File Size: 6.2 MB OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP

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Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

1-November-2003 07:31:20 PM "Caused C++ Runtime Errors" Had to unstill driver. Obiviously needs more work. Should be compatable with WinXP Home, but isn\'t. DO NOT USE.

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

2-November-2003 06:59:10 PM "bad" i upgraded thinking there would be improvements in this version instead there is less programming capability.

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

11-November-2003 08:36:11 AM "easy to use, lack of functions" Back in Intellipoint 4.1x and earlier there was a feature to enable you to program buttons to applications. Once 5 was hurried out it seems to have been.. \"overlooked\" Which causes much annoyance to the gaming community and likewise people who used this feature (which i understand is quite a few ;)

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

12-November-2003 04:48:41 PM "A horrible step backwards" After a fresh install of Windows, I grabbed the latest Intellipoint drivers only to find that I could no longer map my buttons to specific keystrokes and was missing a LOT more features from the older versions.. What gives?

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

23-November-2003 10:46:48 PM "no reprogramming of mouse buttons" I used the ability to repgram the side mouse buttons all the time. For some stupid reason MS took that option out of the 5.0 drivers!!

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

3-December-2003 09:11:17 AM "Where\'d it go" The pointer drifts all over the place - and off the screen.

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

4-December-2003 11:15:28 PM "Crash... crash... oh wait! It\'s working... crash" That about says it all.

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

5-December-2003 10:26:20 PM "Where are the features?" The reason i paid the extra money for the explorer mouse was so that i could play games with customized buttons but the new intellipoint 5.0 has removed the ability to set the mouse buttons to keyboard keys so it can no longer be used in games! Whos stupid idea was that?!!

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

12-December-2003 03:46:09 AM "LAME!" They pulled all the features that made the software actually worth using! VERY BAD!

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

13-December-2003 06:37:40 PM "The program is worse than 4.1 " I dont trust microsoft to produce products for the interest of the buyer.To protect privacy and malicious intent.The program is worse than 4.1 and 4.1 would access internet.I wonder if it records what your clicking.

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

10-January-2004 05:26:08 PM "Only stupid programmability--Bad for games" You can only pick stupid navigation commands for the buttons?! Who\'s the idiot who thought that would be good?

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

16-January-2004 04:38:57 AM "this version 5.0 is a piece of shit" unable to map keyboard key (like ctrl or del) like it was possible in the past . some time loss of the roller fonction for a long time i used to said: \" the only thing that M$ do well is peripherals\" Hey M$ guys a newer version should normaly improve functionnality not the inverse !!! ps : sorry for my english ;o)

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

20-January-2004 07:56:25 PM "stupid piece of crap" who the hell makes a new version with less features?? Stupid piece of TRASH

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

22-January-2004 11:53:22 AM "What no key mapping" removes the ability to set up buttons for certain programs which was an excellent feature truely the only reason to install the software

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

22-January-2004 11:56:02 AM "What no key mapping" removes the ability to set up buttons for certain programs which was an excellent feature truely the only reason to install the software

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

25-January-2004 04:32:59 PM "The Worst \"New Software\" Produced" Install it, Remove it, in that order, and that quickly.

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

27-January-2004 10:03:47 AM "This is a step back... poor programming!" Ver. 5.0 is really a step back, most of the functions in 4.12 have been removed in 5.0 (program the buttons, different setups for different applications...), I called MS and the tech support told me that he also would like to see these functions implemented again cause he\'s used to it, too. I filed a complaint, let\'s see if MS will implement the required features in the next version...

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

4-February-2004 04:48:00 PM "needlessly small selection of mapping of mouse buttons" pathetic. with minimal effort they could have allowed you to bind whatever keys you wanted to the buttons, but oh no... you cant even bind a mouse button as the third button with intellipoint v5.0!! What focus group came up with that crap??

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

6-February-2004 10:44:44 PM "Definitely NOT for Gamers!!!" I am a Gamer. When I upgraded from my wired IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0 to my wireless Explorer 2.0, I thought the better comfort, portability, enhanced battery life, and optical precision would help me out at the LAN parties, but NO! The new IntelliPoint 5.0 software is horrible! All the great features of 4.12 that made this line of mice worth buying are gone! You are no longer able to map program specific buttons and even worse… I use the side thumb button for alternate-fire on FPS games. A lot of times I need to hold down alt-fire to lay down a barrage of bullets, but with IntelliPoint 5.0 the extra buttons only work on button-up! Holding down the buttons does nothing! What’s up with that retarded change? The extra buttons don’t even work in a lot of the games like Unreal Tournament 2003 and Quake 3. Plus, if you get one of these new mice and try to downgrade to 4.12, the software doesn’t even recognize the mice and you can’t use the extra buttons at all. I hope Microsoft fires the person or persons who developed IntelliPoint 5.0 and quickly come out with the corrected 5.1 version.

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

10-February-2004 05:49:57 PM "5.0 is a giant step backwards" Cannot map forward and back buttons any more. But you MUST have 5.0 to use the new tilt wheel left/right scrolling in the Wireless Intellimouse Explorer. So this forced me to return my new Wireless Intellimouse Explorer to the store. The forward/back buttons are way more important than the new left/right scrolling

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

17-February-2004 12:44:47 AM "Don\'t use this version" Just like everyone else, after I upgraded the driver from version 4 to version 5, I discovered that I could no longer have program-specific buttons, and most of the keyboard mappings (ESC, INS, etc) are gone. I fixed it by reinstalling version 4 (do a Google search) for the setup: Uninstall the driver via Add/Remove Programs then delte intellipoint folders. **Then reboot*** When your system comes back up, reinstall the version 4 driver.

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

23-February-2004 03:41:03 AM "Piece of crap!!" Reverted to 4.1 cause no button mapping!! Nice job microcrap. I\'ll return my wireless 2.0 mouse cause I can\'t use the horizontal scrolling on 4.1!! Plain stupid!!!

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

23-February-2004 12:36:33 PM "Implant" BAD compatibility... not lots of function like as: window recal.. close not work same as 4.1...bad.. bad..drivers..:(((( i have Inteli mouse Explorer 4 but he not work with 4.1 drivers.. damn!

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

14-March-2004 10:39:04 AM "Obviously it sucks has someone fixed it?" Yea the keyboard maping bitsucks i just found this out myself on my new desktop pro setup... of course itcomes packaged with 5.0 same prob cant use horizontel scrolling without 5.0. so has anyone made a fix for it yet? its been a year that these drivers have been out almost and MS has done nothing to fix it

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

14-March-2004 08:45:58 PM "new driver , new problem , total waste of money." 1. first look at this address : http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/Software.mspx 2. It says that you can assign any button on your keyboard , intellipoint 5.0 failed to deliver. 3. wheel button = middle button , intellipoint 5.0 \"forget\" on purpose? 4. side tilt? I don\'t give a damn about this shit. 5. 4th/5th button = back/forward? not zoom/unzoom? no custom settings? There\'s one thing microsoft never fail to deliver , bring a whole new lever of dissapoinment to all of it\'s customers.

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

15-March-2004 06:07:55 PM "Hibernation" I love my Intellipoint Optical Mouse, but I hate when it goes into \"hibernation\" - it takes too long to come back on!! Any suggestions or do I have a defective one??

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

19-March-2004 02:08:34 AM "not worth installing." as everyone else said the only reason most people installed this soft is to map a key to the side buttons of ur mouse this version sucks there is only a set amount you can map and they are all useless for games. totally crappy software do not install.

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

21-March-2004 04:59:51 AM "I really woulnd\'t recommend it" Well, i also missed the spezific keys in different programs! That sucks hard! Im going to uninstall this shitty program! P.S. I\'m so happy having the 4.1 Version of IntelliPoint

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

23-March-2004 12:53:31 AM "Holy Downgrade Batman!" The loss in functionallity from the older version has driven me nuts. The ability to have the buttons emulate keyboard strokes was the very best feature of my trackball optical mouse. How could they just axe the best feature? I\'m dumbfounded. Get 4.12 or buy another brand of mouse.

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

23-March-2004 08:02:49 PM "cant bind keys to buttons for 4.0 explorer" Need intellipoint 4 to do that. Makes using additional buttons for games a problem

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

29-March-2004 04:24:41 AM "That screams for mod this" Want back my keystrokes...!

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

2-April-2004 02:23:10 PM "Crashes Machine...." When ever it\'s not missbehaving, It crashes my computer!!!! Piece of Crap!!! Must be a Macintoss version!!! When will It be fixed.

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

6-April-2004 09:45:37 AM "Great mouse, Bad drivers" I\'ve change my mices from Logitech to microsoft when intellimouse explorer came. The great new feature was one more button and the possibility to bind ANY KEY to a mouse button. With intellipoint 5.0 you lost all usefull options. Dont buy a new Microsoft mouse if you want to play games. Most of them ( even DirectX ones ) dont recognize more than 3 button and wheel. Old ones NEVER. If you\'re the lucky owner of a microsoft mouse supported by intellipoint 4.x don\'t change.

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

8-April-2004 06:25:25 AM "No program specific button settings!!!" Grrrrr! What the hell were they thinking when they released this crap?

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

13-April-2004 03:27:15 PM "Another moan about the V5.0 drivers" Simply sucks. If like me you don\'t have a copy of the v4.12 drivers you can get them here. http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/8/c/48ca781f-a1be-4cdc-8d97-dfc33535d4da/IP4_12EngALLMsi.exe

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

16-April-2004 10:04:40 AM "Microsoft took out the customisability" They gutted what was a good piece of software Took out all custom key bindings Tried to fix what wasnt broke. Basically removed the only useful thing about intellipoint drivers

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

20-April-2004 03:23:26 AM "It\'s a downgrade" No keystroke support, no per-program support -- what a piece of junk for Games. Back to 4.12

Kruskal Installation Stability Compatibility

26-April-2004 09:36:09 PM "Can\'t Figure Out How to Not Map 4th and 5th Buttons" I have PowerPro to map buttons and the latest version of it knows about the 4th and 5th button. So all I have to know is how to tell the version 5 MS driver not to map the buttons at all. I figured out how to do this with the wheel (middle) button -- set the mapping to AutoScroll. But how do I do it for the 4th and 5th buttons? Thanks for any help on this -- Vincent

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

11-May-2004 03:07:14 PM "left/ right buttons inop" The left and right buttons quit working in AOL, but work in IE. Back to version 4.x. Also, why does Windows install Intellimouse Explorer drivers when I have an Optical?

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

15-May-2004 10:01:45 PM "Making the middle button work" To make the middle button work as you are used to in applications that require it, choose \'Autoscroll\' from the list of actions. I guess \'Autoscroll\' was considered to make more sense than \'middle click\' as it is how it is used if your window has vertical or horizontal scrollbars. The problem is, of course, its NOT a click action -- its a DRAG action.

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

23-May-2004 02:59:28 PM "Worst Drivers I\'ve Ever Seen." Fucking terrible. No programmable buttons in 5.0 Absolutely atrocious intellieye explorer 4.0a support.

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

28-May-2004 07:40:02 AM "pfff" as everyone said it previously, this piece is a very bad one. Dont install it. Choose 4.12 instead

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

29-May-2004 12:49:38 PM "Stupid Microsoft" How much time is needed to Microsoft release a new driver version!!!!! 5.1 or 6.0! Open you eyes Microsoft!

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

16-June-2004 01:39:12 PM "bad" bad

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

17-June-2004 04:42:40 AM "Not worth the effort" I bought the new Intellimouse Explorer 4.0 to replace my ageing 3.0, only to find that Intellipoint 5.0 has removed virtually everything I found to be of use in the last version. I\'m seriously considering seeling my mouse already to try and find a replacement Explorer 3.0.....

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

1-July-2004 01:46:46 AM "Are M$ awake?" Almost a year later and they haven\'t fixed what is a HUGE problem. How incompetent is this company?

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

8-July-2004 06:03:27 PM "JWS" WTF? I had this mouse on my old cp a couple of year and 1/2 ago and LOVED it, so moved it over to my new CP and downloaded drivers... Cant customize the buttons anymore? POS , gimme the older version any day.

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

15-July-2004 02:10:29 PM "They totally botched this ALL up!" Intellipoint is TERRIBLE! Period.

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

16-July-2004 09:37:33 PM "DO NOT INSTALL INTELLIPOINT 5.0" I think MS decided to plug some holes in their apps and eventually the features in Intellipoint 4.1 will go away (XP SP2 anyone?) but there is no need to kiss them good bye before then. If you install 5.0 you will lose the M3 click scrolling and assignment of letters to the mouse buttons and the overriding of buttons on a per program basis. It is not worth it just to gain right and left wheel movement. Notice the only person so far to vote thumbs up did so accidentally. That should tell you something.

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

24-July-2004 11:48:46 PM "Where are the functions?" I used the ability to reprogram the side mouse buttons all the time. For some stupid reason MS took that option out of the 5.0 drivers!! I bought the Intellimouse Explorer 4.0 and it didn\'t work with Intellipoint 4.1, so I can\'t go back to the older version!

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

26-July-2004 09:31:11 AM "This sucks" Is there ANY way to get new mice to work with 4.12? Some reg trick or anything? No wonder this mouse was soo cheap; the drivers make it worthless.

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

6-August-2004 02:04:07 PM "Now Useless" New driver 5 cancels functionality. Huge step backwards. Microsoft unwilling to fix the problem. Useless, waste of money.

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

8-August-2004 01:46:31 AM "button mapping..grrrrrrr" unable to map buttons to specific keyboard strokes :(

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

11-September-2004 06:41:22 PM "5.1 IntelliPoint Driver Problem" Don\'t use it! Upgrade not needed. Almost took mouse apart, thought sticking buttons was me. Problem is Microsoft. Apple user, not Windoz. Kevin

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

17-September-2004 06:00:32 PM "Bind buttons" once again why removing the intellipoint 4.12 bind keybord key to mouse button. I switch to older drivers and wait for this functionnality to came back before buying a Microsoft mouse. All new once dont works with intellipoint 4.12

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

18-September-2004 07:59:03 AM "Intellipoint 5 will not allow IP4 reinstall" If you install IP 5.xxx, you will never be able to go back to IP4. IP 5 sucks! You will lose functionality and who cares about tilt wheel???

Anonymous Installation Stability Compatibility

13-October-2004 06:45:14 PM "Intellipoint is teh SUX" Did Microsoft have ANY REASON AT ALL for removing the key binding options that were in v4? I can\'t think of any, and I\'ve never heard of any. Why would these utter fuggups arbitrarily yank essential functionality away from a WHOLE LOT of computing enthusiasts who once trusted MS peripherals? I\'ll tell you what the effect is; It\'s pessing me off!!!!

jeff Installation Stability Compatibility

11-November-2004 05:46:23 PM "rubbish for games" Rubbish for games. middle button really clunky and difficult to click. I am hoping to take it back tomorrow. PS i really rate firefox 1.0 micosoft are letting me down

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