Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0 - mouse

...master of all mice, the Microsoft IntelliPoint Pro. Packaged in a simple yet effective transparent fronted box, the IntelliPoint pro looks fabulous. Although a bit bulky on top and with a lack of couler co-ordination due to its to silver side buttons, Even though the packaging you can tell this mouse is a quality product. The off white body work and silver side buttons pull off a slick and expensive look whilst the alluring price tag beckons with ...
...are a little inexperienced with Microsoft software there’s always the help and user tutorials contained within the cd . Still a little baffled with this program? Then log onto Microsoft’s online help and support centre for easy to follow advice. Any further information on the specs or functions of this software can also be found on the Microsoft web site. The IntelliPoint pro program enables total customisation of the mouse settings. ...

the_evil_aku 24.04.2004 · Read full review
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...I came to own a Microsoft IntelliMouse. Well the people on the Customer Service desk in PC World took one look at it after I told them my story of trying to buy a working mouse and told me I could have a refund or exchange it for a new mouse. I decided to take a look at their choice of mice in the hope of exchanging it. Their shelves were full, a whole aisle dedicated to these pointing and navigating devices. The display was well laid out with ...
...small red light under the Microsoft logo. Altogether this mouse has five buttons, yes five! There seems to be plenty of room even though there are five buttons on this mouse. It is not made to be a left or right handed mouse, so can be for a left or right handed user, as some tend to curve to suit one user more than another. It has the normal left and right buttons on the top and the front and the scroll wheel is located between these two. The on ...

PeterFarrell 03.01.2002 · Read full review
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...IT LOOK LIKE? The Microsoft Intellimouse comes packaged well, in a nice sturdy red box with a clear window so you can see what you're buying. The mouse itself is an undeniably foxy little thing; it has a nice ergonomic shape so that unlike my old mouse it fits comfortably in your hand. Either hand in fact, as it is designed for left and right handed use. The buttons are all positioned well, and the scrolling wheel is ridged and easy to grip. The ...
...less complicated models of the Microsoft Optical Intellimouse around which are cheaper, so it's worth looking around to find one that suits your specific needs. HOW EASY IS IT TO SET UP? It isn't quite so simple as just plugging in the mouse and carrying on as usual, as it uses the USB port rather than the mouse port (though it can be converted if you are already using all your USB ports, but remember you will lose a certain amount of the efficiency ...

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...(Source Microsoft.com)** For the Microsoft Operating System: Hard Disk 30 MB of available hard disk space. Drive CD-ROM drive Operating System One of the following operating systems: Microsoft Windows® 95, Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows NT® Workstation 4.0 Service Pack 3 or later or Windows 2000. PeripheralsRound mouse port (PS/2-compatible) or USB port (USB requires Windows 98,Windows Millennium Edition or Windows 2000). Miscellaneous ...
...Microsoft. I have used other Microsoft hardware products before, such as their older mice and their keyboards. These I found to be very good, the build quality was excellent and the ease of their installation and use was re-assuring. Having used the mouse for a couple of months now, I have become a custom to the red glow that eminates from the mouse as the optical sensor does it's business. This red glow has become quite soothing, apprt from when ...

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...latest addition to my increasingly Microsoft orientated PC (i love hating them, but they do have good stuff every now and then) was the Intellimouse Optical. Its pretty much the next step (dare i say?) forward in terms of their intellimouse range. For starters, it comes as a USB mouse. Fear not though, mine came with a very nifty USB to PS/2 transformer, that you can whack onto the mouse so that you can plug it into the normal mouse socket if you ...
...free. Technically, putting it in the USB port would give you better control over the mouse, as the mouse would then be able to refresh its position more times a second than through a PS/2 port, but in reality (as with most gimmicks) there is not much difference. For those of you that dont know, this mouse is based on a newish technology whereby an optical CMOD camera takes around 1500 pics a second of the area under the mouse. this is then sent ...

cool_bob 13.06.2001 (21.06.2001) · Read full review
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...the other day, it's a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical. Hey, this was the mouse I was going to buy myself instead of my Logitech Optical mouse that I bought. Microsoft make good mice, theres no denying that. They are the leader in the field of mice and probably will be for a long time, with Logitech following closely behind. Their mice are normally very durable, but you do pay for them. Take for instance my mouse at work. It's been used for 3 years ...
...buying a piece of hardware. Microsoft give me that. Surprising then that I didn't buy this mouse and didn't recommend it. It just turned up on my desk for me to put on a doctors computer. The doctor had infact bought it for himself because he has a similar Microsoft mouse at home and loves it. There was nothing wrong with the basic 'Dell' mouse he already had on his computer, he just wanted a wheel mouse, and Microsoft was the one he went for. The ...

GR-Design 21.07.2002 (03.08.2002) · Read full review
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...operating systems and Internet Explorer, Microsoft also dabbles in the hardware market, namely in keyboards, mice, and game controllers. Having used a traditional mouse all these years, I decided to see what all this optical fuss was all about and I went and bought a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer. Look and Feel ============= The Intellimouse Explorer is nicely designed with a solid build quality. Finished in matt silver with some dark grey areas, ...
...will it end?) which makes a change from the very dull beige or light grey usually associated with home computer hardware. Yes it does look rather good on your desk so long your mouse mat is tasteful! The mouse has 4 physical buttons, 2 at the front like traditional mice, and 2 at the left hand side where your thumb usually resides. Then there is the ever so useful scroller wheel between the 2 front buttons. Anyone who uses one can understand when ...

rayliu 28.05.2002 · Read full review
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...mouse. My old Microsoft Intellimouse used to meet the requirements I needed in a mouse. It is comfortable, ergonomically friendly and pretty reliable. I loved the scroll wheel and found it came in a LOT of use. I had the Microsoft Intellimouse for about 3½ years and one day found it was locking up my CPU and crash my computer. This puzzled me a lot. I checked all the software to make sure it was not a software glitch and found nothing wrong. It had ...
...fine so I checked the Microsoft Intellimouse. I plugged in a serial mouse and found my computer would work perfectly without the Microsoft Intellimouse, but a serial mouse instead. I decided to get a new mouse. As I used the mouse a lot, I found the rollers would get dirty quite quickly. This annoyed me a lot so I did some research and looked into buying an optical mouse. I really like the ergonomic designs of Microsoft mice so I chose to buy a Microsoft ...

jon86 19.05.2002 (20.05.2002) · Read full review
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UPDATE 22/10/2002 ----------------- TrueSatan left a message in my guestbook that the intellipoint software supplied with this mouse had fatal flaws in it, andit will break down if you try to upgrade it (see my guestbook for further details). I would like to point out that my mouse is an OEM version so I didn't get any software provided with it, meaning i've never tried upgrading it. TrueSatan's warning seems good enough though - so take this advice ...
...supplied with my computer was of very poor quality. The ball kept sticking, and after about two months of use the left button snapped! So it was now time to buy a new mouse! My requirements for a new mouse were these: An optical sensor, a scroll wheel, a branded make, and programmable buttons. After an hour searching PC World, I came up with the Intellimouse Explorer. This mouse was about £40, which is a bit more expensive than most mice/trackballs. ...

stevie-boy 15.09.2002 (22.10.2002) · Read full review
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...very clear. The Microsoft IntelliMouse is smooth and makes pointing the cursor key effortless. There’s no need to move the mouse up and do like with normal mouse’s. It has it’s own little eye, and the mouse balls are replaced with an optical sensor which can detect movement. It comes with two buttons which you can use for games, pasting and some other controls. It’s a very good mouse for children as it’s very easy to ...
...The only thing is that if you like to play games then the mouse isn’t very good, especially if you will be clattering at the buttons in a fighting game especially. This mouse costs £35 which may seem a bit expensive but in the long run will last longer than your average mouse, it requires little effort to us it and comes with good instruction. Available from most computer sites or computer shops. This is a very good mouse, a huge difference ...

WAD1-2-3 22.07.2001 · Read full review
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...doesn’t look as impressive as Microsoft would have you believe. ===== Other ===== Other than this there really isn’t much else that comes with this mouse. The software does the job reasonably well and allows easy access to standard mouse-related features (e.g. sensitivity, mouse pointer animations and button assignment). The two thumb-buttons as default are assigned to back and forward in Internet Explorer. However, some applications ...
...all) or the Logitech Wingman. Microsoft has also released an updated version of the Intellimouse Explorer with a far more stream-lined shape and improved IntelliEye. However, this means that you are more likely to find this older model at a more reasonable price. The 'Explorer' may seem quite expensive despite the probable price-cut but as I said earlier it will make standard mice feel cumbersome in comparison. PS. Surprising how much one can write ...

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I got this mouse about a month ago, because of all the good things I had heard about it, and I have not been disappointed, even with the £40 price tag. It uses a light which is projected from the bottom of the mouse, to the surface that it is on, to scan it's position every few fractions of a second, and it works really well. You get no slightly jumpy mouse movement, it is all exact and smooth to use. You also notice that the red light dulls down ...
...little bit of energy, which is quite good. You get 4 buttons on the mouse, including your usual bog-standard left and right buttons, but as well as this, you get 1 either side of the mouse, which are in a good position, because this is where you fingers are anyway, so you are not slightly inconvenienced by using them. These two extra buttons can be programmed however you like because the mouse comes with it's own drivers, you could use these buttons ...

M.T.J 07.01.2001 · Read full review
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The Microsoft Intellimouse Optical is a beautiful mouse - curves in the right places, lovely and red underneath with a wheel you can stroke on top. This mouse cost me about £35 at the time. My old 'ball. mouse was having terrible trouble finding it's way around - despite various attempts to clean it, it had a mind of it's own. Frustration grew to the point where it would get slammed down on the table if it didn't comply with my requests. It was ...
...comes with a CD with Microsoft Intellimouse software on it. When installing the disc, it asks you what mouse you have - you select it from a list, make sure the picture is the same, and there you go! All done. Then you begin to notice just how useful the little blighter is. It is as smooth as silk on most surfaces (even on your arm! Well not my arm-it's too hairy!). I play a lot of PC games that are reliant on short, fast movements and this mouse ...

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...want, being advertised primarily by microsoft as "the" gaming mouse, I had to give it a go; and was instantly impressed with its responsiveness and accuracy. I tried it in a variety of games including counter strike, age of empires and world of warcraft, and it was flawless in all of them. The intellimouse also came with teflon feet, which I tested on my qpad gaming mousemat, and on my desk itself, was very smooth and accurate on either surface, ...
...still almost as sturdy as when it was first new, only little problem is the mousewheel, at first it was very solid, but over time it has come very loose, and sometimes has the habbit of moving itself due to how loose it has become. This however wouldn't put me off buying it again. An amazing mouse for everything you would ever need to do on a computer, in my opinion it can't be beaten. ...

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I picked up my Microsoft Intellimouse Optical a couple of years ago now (back in 2000), prior to that I had been happily pointing a clicking with my trusty Microsoft Mouse 2.0. It wasn’t that I needed a new mouse especially, its just I was upgrading my PC at the time, and having used ‘standard’ mice for over a decade I was getting tired of having to deal with ball problems (also it had shiny red light). At the time I was looking to by the Intellimouse ...
...Having moved from the Microsoft Mouse 2.0 I was immediately impressed by control I had over the mouse, the pointer slid across the screen with almost unnatural ease. It wasn’t just that there was no mouse ball to became caught on itself, or that I didn’t need to lift and slide the mouse several times before the pointer scrolled successfully across the screen, it was that the whole experience that had been enhanced, with no ball, and no need for a ...

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