Completely utilising the Four Buttons of Mouse

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When you use your mouse on your computer, the actions most frequently performed are to close windows by clicking the X in the upper right of them and return back into the pages you visit or files with a click the back button on your browser.

Today, most mice have at least four buttons, the wheel that can also serve as a button (in addition to scroll through the on-screen information, castors can also be pressed to act as a button).

Why not assign the extra buttons to the classic left and right buttons to perform a particular action that will save you time, just like going back, close a window, display the lens or any action you want?

If you have a Microsoft-branded mouse, you can use the software IntelliPoint that you can configure the actions to be assigned to buttons on your mouse. For the mice in the Logitech brand, the software SetPoint allows you to do the same thing. Finally, to all other mice (and even the Microsoft and Logitech), the software X-Mouse Button Control allows you to configure the actions to be assigned to mouse buttons in Windows, but for every software you use.

Configuring a Microsoft mouse:

For Microsoft mouse, the drivers contained in the IntelliPoint software allow you to configure the various buttons on your mouse, to know the charge level of batteries, etc..

• Visit the page of IntelliPoint software and download the drivers.
  
• Click Save. Select a folder to save the file in the Downloads folder for example and click Save.
  
• Once the download is complete, run the file.
  
• Confirm execution.
  
• In the wizard that opens, select the I accept this agreement and click Next.
  
• Then select your mouse in the list and click Next. If you do not know the model of your mouse, turn it over. His name is marked below.
  
• Finally, click Finish.
  
• In Windows, click Start, click Control Panel.
  
• Click Hardware and Sound.
  
• Click Mouse.
  
• In the window that appears, open the Buttons tab.
  
• You can then choose to assign actions to each button of your mouse.
  
• Then click Apply and OK to confirm.

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Configuring a Logitech mouse:

For Logitech mouse, the drivers contained in the SetPoint software will allow you to configure the buttons on your mouse, to know the charge level of batteries, etc..

• Visit the SetPoint software page and download the needed drivers.
  
• Click Save. Select a folder to save the file in the Downloads folder for example and click Save.
  
• Once the download is complete, run the file.
  
• Confirm execution.
  
• In the wizard that opens, select Express Installation and click Next.
  
• Finally, click Finish.
  
• A new icon appeared in the notification area. Click it.
  
• In the menu that appears, click Settings mouse and keyboard.
  
• In the window that opens, click the button to configure.
  
• Then choose the action to assign to this button.
  
• Click OK.

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Configure any mouse:

For all other mice (and also for Microsoft and Logitech), you can use the free X-Mouse Button Control that allows you to configure the actions to be assigned to different buttons on your mouse, and, for each software you use. It is therefore possible to define a button to perform a certain task and a word processor for another task in your Web browser.

• Download X-Mouse Button Control.
  
• Click the Save button. Select a folder to save the file in the Downloads folder for example and click Save.
  
• Once the download is complete, run the file.
  
• In the wizard that opens, click three times on the Next button.
  
• Finally click the Finish button.
  
• A new icon appeared in the notification area.
  
• Click on it with the right mouse button and choose the Setup command.
  
• In the window that opens, you can set the default settings for each button of your mouse.
  
• To configure the buttons for a particular software, click the Add button.
  
• Select from the list the program running configure. Click OK.
  
• Then set the mouse buttons. Your settings will be active only for this software.
  
• Set in the same way the buttons to your other software. The default settings "Default" will be applied. Then press OK to.