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Old 03-15-2007, 08:16 AM
David Sclove
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changing mouse buttons

I like to use the left mouse button as the main button; my wife
prefers the right. Is there a quick and easy way to change this back
and forth so we don't have to have separate user accounts?

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Old 03-15-2007, 08:31 AM
Steve Parry
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Re: changing mouse buttons

In news:1173975246.235184.123540@p15g2000hsd.googlegr oups.com,
David Sclove <david.sclove@alum.dartmouth.org> wibbled
> I like to use the left mouse button as the main button; my wife
> prefers the right. Is there a quick and easy way to change this back
> and forth so we don't have to have separate user accounts?


only going into control panel> mouse > buttons and ticking the switch
buttons box as far as I'm aware

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Old 03-15-2007, 08:46 AM
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Re: changing mouse buttons

David Sclove wrote:
> I like to use the left mouse button as the main button; my wife
> prefers the right. Is there a quick and easy way to change this back
> and forth so we don't have to have separate user accounts?


Free Software
http://www.soft411.com/software/swap-mouse-buttons.html

MouseButtons
http://www.12noon.com/products.htm
http://www.12noon.com/files/mousebuttons.exe

Use caution; I've never tried their software.

C/Net site.. first "hit" looks like a good one. It doesn't mention XP
though:
http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0....mouse&tag=srch

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Old 03-15-2007, 09:15 AM
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Re: changing mouse buttons

David Sclove wrote ::
> I like to use the left mouse button as the main button; my wife
> prefers the right. Is there a quick and easy way to change this back
> and forth so we don't have to have separate user accounts?



Open Notepad. Copy/paste following-

obsS=WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
obsS.Run("control mouse")
do{
WScript.Sleep(240)
}while(!obsS.AppActivate("Mouse Prop"))
obsS.Sendkeys(" ");WScript.Sleep(75);
obsS.SendKeys("~")


Save it with JS extension then run it when you want to change buttons.

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