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To: Ed Forrest who wrote (14818)	1/12/2001 12:18:04 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

I really like the MS optical mouse. The only problem I have with it is if I roll the scroll bar too fast the pointer changes into a double arrow and goes haywire. All I have to do though is click into another open window then back into the window where I was and the problem corrects. This only happens to me once or twice a week. The MS optical mouse, unlike Logitech's, has thumb and ring finger buttons and I don't find either of them awkward. The defaults, Internet Forward and Back are great. Between these two extra buttons and never having to clean a mouse ball my small problem is trivial. One caution to others about optical mice. They don't work well on solid colored mouse pads but do work fine without a mouse pad on a wood desk with detailed grain or with any mouse pad that isn't a solid color. Until I got the MS Intelimouse Optical I thought Logitech made the best mice but Logitech still don't have a model equivalent to the Intelimouse Optical. I would like 2 more buttons though for copy and paste and there is room on the Intelimouse where they'd fit nicely, in the corners between the side buttons and the top buttons. microsoft.com

To: Ed Forrest who wrote (14818)	1/12/2001 1:34:28 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110652

Ed, [edited] I have a Logitech optical USB mouse for my laptop. I seldom use the touchpad. The only complaint is that when entering text the cursor sometimes jumps somewhere else for no apparent reason. I don't know if that's mouse related. The center wheel rotates to scroll and when pushed down displays a pie shaped menu with the slices labelled 'stop', 'back', 'reload', 'favorites' and a few web addresses I entered myself. In effect it puts these buttons wherever the mouse pointer is. This mouse has not caused hangups. It coexists with the touchpad. [edit] One of the pie slices brings up 'favorites'. Gottfried