Vista Tutorial - Drivers for Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse and Desktop Elite Keyb

It is really very odd that Microsofts own hardware products do not provide
real driver support for Windows Vista. How can they expect other
manufacturers to do so if they aren't doing it themselves?

I have a Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2 and Wireless Desktop
Elite Keyboard - they are now running with generic keyboard and mouse
drivers. This means that all of the extra features these products have are
not supported.

I have tried isntallign the available packages but they refuse to install.

There might be a command line to have the installer ignore OS version - does
anyone know what that is?

On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:45:02 -0700, Copenhagen
<Copenhagen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>It is really very odd that Microsofts own hardware products do not provide
>real driver support for Windows Vista. How can they expect other
>manufacturers to do so if they aren't doing it themselves?
>
>I have a Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2 and Wireless Desktop
>Elite Keyboard - they are now running with generic keyboard and mouse
>drivers. This means that all of the extra features these products have are
>not supported.
>
>I have tried isntallign the available packages but they refuse to install.
>
>There might be a command line to have the installer ignore OS version - does
>anyone know what that is?

Not offhand, report the bug to MSFT. I doubt they actually make the
things or write the drivers though that will be farmed out somewhere.
Use a PS2 Mouse & Keyboard with Vista if you have problems with the
trick stuff. It will get sorted for the final release.

I am using vintage Win95 KB & Mouse with PS2 adaptors no problems at
all.

Jonah

Try right clicking the setup file, if you are brave, select
Properties>Compatibility Mode>Run this....Windows XP. This may do two
things for you, a.)give you what you want or b.)screw up things so bad that
you may go psychotic. B is very much an option so proceed with caution.
"Copenhagen" <Copenhagen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news0CBFBA3-AFEE-45C8-8F52-C4FD7A295A17@microsoft.com...
> It is really very odd that Microsofts own hardware products do not provide
> real driver support for Windows Vista. How can they expect other
> manufacturers to do so if they aren't doing it themselves?
>
> I have a Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2 and Wireless Desktop
> Elite Keyboard - they are now running with generic keyboard and mouse
> drivers. This means that all of the extra features these products have are
> not supported.
>
> I have tried isntallign the available packages but they refuse to install.
>
> There might be a command line to have the installer ignore OS version -
> does
> anyone know what that is?

"jonah" wrote:

> I am using vintage Win95 KB & Mouse with PS2 adaptors no problems at
> all.
>
The mouse and keyboard are working fine - at the same level as your old
devices. But, the Intellimouse and Keyboard have many features and none of
these work now.

I'm using the Intelipoint 5.5 software with my Laser 6000 set, only one
problem with the zoom (reported). Everything else seems to work.
I don't remember how I installed it, it's been a while, but I couldn't have
had too much in the way of trouble doing it.

Ray

"Copenhagen" <Copenhagen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C6D8BA83-F5D9-4395-B5D7-4572714956CC@microsoft.com...
> "jonah" wrote:
>
>> I am using vintage Win95 KB & Mouse with PS2 adaptors no problems at
>> all.
>>
> The mouse and keyboard are working fine - at the same level as your old
> devices. But, the Intellimouse and Keyboard have many features and none of
> these work now.

Are you talking about this in Windows Vista? I
thought there were previous posts that said the
Intellipoint 5.5 software would not install in
Vista.


Ray wrote:
> I'm using the Intelipoint 5.5 software with my Laser 6000 set, only one
> problem with the zoom (reported). Everything else seems to work.
> I don't remember how I installed it, it's been a while, but I couldn't
> have had too much in the way of trouble doing it.
>
> Ray
>
> "Copenhagen" <Copenhagen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C6D8BA83-F5D9-4395-B5D7-4572714956CC@microsoft.com...
>> "jonah" wrote:
>>
>>> I am using vintage Win95 KB & Mouse with PS2 adaptors no problems at
>>> all.
>>>
>> The mouse and keyboard are working fine - at the same level as your old
>> devices. But, the Intellimouse and Keyboard have many features and
>> none of
>> these work now.
>

Yup, Vista it is.

Ray

"Rick" <Rick@Discussions.Microsoft.Com> wrote in message
news:Of$rNf2nGHA.1444@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Are you talking about this in Windows Vista? I thought there were
> previous posts that said the Intellipoint 5.5 software would not install
> in Vista.
>
>
> Ray wrote:
>> I'm using the Intelipoint 5.5 software with my Laser 6000 set, only one
>> problem with the zoom (reported). Everything else seems to work.
>> I don't remember how I installed it, it's been a while, but I couldn't
>> have had too much in the way of trouble doing it.
>>
>> Ray
>>
>> "Copenhagen" <Copenhagen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:C6D8BA83-F5D9-4395-B5D7-4572714956CC@microsoft.com...
>>> "jonah" wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am using vintage Win95 KB & Mouse with PS2 adaptors no problems at
>>>> all.
>>>>
>>> The mouse and keyboard are working fine - at the same level as your old
>>> devices. But, the Intellimouse and Keyboard have many features and none
>>> of
>>> these work now.
>>

I am sure he means that the hardware is installed with generic drivers and
works with minimal features.

"Rick" wrote:

> Are you talking about this in Windows Vista? I
> thought there were previous posts that said the
> Intellipoint 5.5 software would not install in
> Vista.
>
>
> Ray wrote:
> > I'm using the Intelipoint 5.5 software with my Laser 6000 set, only one
> > problem with the zoom (reported). Everything else seems to work.
> > I don't remember how I installed it, it's been a while, but I couldn't
> > have had too much in the way of trouble doing it.
> >
> > Ray
> >
> > "Copenhagen" <Copenhagen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:C6D8BA83-F5D9-4395-B5D7-4572714956CC@microsoft.com...
> >> "jonah" wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am using vintage Win95 KB & Mouse with PS2 adaptors no problems at
> >>> all.
> >>>
> >> The mouse and keyboard are working fine - at the same level as your old
> >> devices. But, the Intellimouse and Keyboard have many features and
> >> none of
> >> these work now.
> >
>

"Bob T." wrote:

> Try right clicking the setup file, if you are brave, select
> Properties>Compatibility Mode>Run this....Windows XP.

I just tried this - I choose compatibility with XP SP2. I get to a screen
which asks me to choose which mouse I am installing. I strongly suspect that
a list is supposoed to be displayed, but none is displayed and I can
therefore not continue.

If by "he" you mean me, then that's not quite right about the drivers,
although maybe I shouldn't say that, you tell me if these are generic.

Mouse:
Driver Date 01/12/05
Version 5.5.661.0
Driver details show a couple of new drivers alongside the 5.5 ones,
6.0.5384.4

As I said, all is working as it should except for the zoom feature, it keeps
on zooming out, almost to the microscopic level.

Keyboard:
Driver shows as a later version, must be in vista, 6.0.5384.4
Everything works, even the zoom
Ray


"Copenhagen" <Copenhagen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8FF296AC-1B1D-46EE-8BA6-EAAA670C8875@microsoft.com...
>I am sure he means that the hardware is installed with generic drivers and
> works with minimal features.
>
> "Rick" wrote:
>
>> Are you talking about this in Windows Vista? I
>> thought there were previous posts that said the
>> Intellipoint 5.5 software would not install in
>> Vista.
>>
>>
>> Ray wrote:
>> > I'm using the Intelipoint 5.5 software with my Laser 6000 set, only one
>> > problem with the zoom (reported). Everything else seems to work.
>> > I don't remember how I installed it, it's been a while, but I couldn't
>> > have had too much in the way of trouble doing it.
>> >
>> > Ray
>> >
>> > "Copenhagen" <Copenhagen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> > news:C6D8BA83-F5D9-4395-B5D7-4572714956CC@microsoft.com...
>> >> "jonah" wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> I am using vintage Win95 KB & Mouse with PS2 adaptors no problems at
>> >>> all.
>> >>>
>> >> The mouse and keyboard are working fine - at the same level as your
>> >> old
>> >> devices. But, the Intellimouse and Keyboard have many features and
>> >> none of
>> >> these work now.
>> >
>>