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MICROSOFT ARC MOUSE CONFIGURATION FOR MAC FOR MAC OS
MICROSOFT ARC MOUSE CONFIGURATION FOR MAC MAC OS
MICROSOFT ARC MOUSE CONFIGURATION FOR MAC DRIVER

No such luck, so I googled around and found out about the new MS driver (6.2.2), pulled it down and installed. Once home, I installed the MS driver, hoping I could get the bottom buttons working. Well, the wheel and two main buttons worked. I picked it, allowed it to pair without a key when it asked, and BAM it worked. Turned on Bluetooth, chose Setup Bluetooth Device, Chose Mouse, pushed the little button on the bottom of the mouse, and an odd numeric string showed up. I bought this mouse, tore it open in my car, still in the shop’s parking lot, and slammed in the batteries. I have a 15″ powerbook G4, and I need to give a Keynote presentation next week, so this bluetooth device seemed perfect. It’s a good thing I didn’t read up looking for help.

I wonder if this is related to the “connected but not paired” issue? I also noted something strange: when the mouse is all set up and “working”, I go straight to the keyboard and mouse hardware preferences menu and modify the tracking speed to about the fourth of fifth line and it works just fine! However when I close this menu and go back to work with any other application, the tracking speed returns to its sluggish movement. Still, the tracking or pointer speed is too slow for me. The device is detected and “connected” but not shown as paired at the bluetooth hardware preferences menu.

I upgraded the intellipoint software to mac version 6.2.2 (released on december 12th, 2007). I have the mouse tracking speed maxed out but the speed is still too slow. I use the Microsoft Intellimouse software so I can map my side buttons and because I can’t stand OS X’s mouse acceleration with an actual mouse. I’m using a Microsoft Presenter 8000 Bluetooth mouse on my Macbook Pro.

MICROSOFT ARC MOUSE CONFIGURATION FOR MAC MAC OS

Why did I repave my MacBook?Â I’ve been hearing great things about VMware Fusion.Â VMware Fusion lets you run Windows in a virtual machine on Mac OS X.Â It is the VMware equivalent of Parallels.Â I’ve been anxious to try it.Â It is supposed to boot a BootCamp partition but I kept getting a “Raw Disk Creation Failed” error message so I decided to start from scratch.Â It’s working great with a virtual hard disk.

MICROSOFT ARC MOUSE CONFIGURATION FOR MAC FOR MAC OS

I also installed the latest IntelliPoint software for Mac OS X, which let me configure the pointer speed and reprogram the side buttons (one to open Dashboard and the other Expose). ( big thanks to macrumors user viper0440) Light should stop blinking and the device will show up with status “Connected: Yes” in bluetooth device list.

Settings section Click the device ID in the list of your mouse, Add to Favorites.

Open System Preferences Bluetooth Devices section.

Click Cancel Quit Bluetooth File Exchange.

Next to search button it will say “Device does not have the necessary services.”.

If the device “Mouse” is not in the list click search, then click browse.

Click Bluetooth tray icon Browse Device….

Press or hold down connect button until light flashes alternating red and green.

I finally found a technique in a forum that worked for me: I absolutely love my Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000.Â It’s a small Bluetooth mouse and my MacBook has built-in Bluetooth so I have a nice travel mouse with no dongle!Â It was working fine on Vista using BootCamp.Â This week I decided to repave the MacBook and tried to get the mouse working on OS X.Â I got nowhere using the normal Bluetooth device discovery technique in OS X.Â The computer could see the mouse but it repeatedly failed to pair.