Logitech WheelMouse help?

[Jason]

Hello everyone,

For the past several years, I've been using a Logitech WheelMouse and have loved it completely. The only blip in the road was a while back when I switched from IE to FireFox I lost the WebWheel feature (it didn't work in FireFox), but I found a work-around for that.

However, I just moved from a computer running W2K to an XP system, and I'm thoroughly stymied. In W2K, there was a setting in the WheelMouse configuration menu where I could set what action I wanted to happen when I clicked the wheel (depressed it as a 3rd mouse button). That option is missing in XP.

I use the wheel button constantly while browsing the web (I use it as a back button, so you can see how often I must press it in the course of a day), and it's driving me nuts not being able to do that.

Anyone here using a WheelMouse on XP have any idea how to get that configuration setting back?

Thanks,

Jason

[Arthur]

Jason, do you have the Mouseware software from Logitech installed? If not, go to their site, go to Support, Downloads and find the software for your mouse.
After installing the software you should have a item 'Mouse' in your control panel, from there you can then define your button actions.

-Arthur

[Jason]

WooHoo! Thank you Arthur! That did it!

It's weird - I'm not at all used to XP. On W2K I would have immediately gone to Logitech's site and installed the software, but that's because on W2K I wouldn't have had *any* of the wheel functionality. On XP, just enough of the functionality was working (and the "mouse" item in my control panel even identified the mouse as a Logitech WheelMouse!) that I assumed that XP just came with the correct driver. It didn't occur to me that XP could know what type of mouse it was and allow the basic wheel functionality without actually having the full software installed.

Now I know.

Thank you so much for pointing out what should have been obvious from the beginning!

Thanks,

Jason