You can’t get rid of me that easily
My Microsoft Comfort Mouse was acting up: not only did it click on the downstroke, but also on the upstroke, which is a bit disconcerting if not necessarily dysfunctional. Fine, I said, I have alternatives. I fished a Logitech mouse out of my laptop bag, plugged it into a USB port, and did the reboot; Windows found the mouse, installed drivers, and that was that.
Except, of course, that I decided to scrap Microsoft’s mouse software, inasmuch as its own Control Panel applet supplanted the standard set of controls. I dialed over to Add/Remove Programs, scrolled down to IntelliPoint, and whaddaya know: there’s a Change button, but no Delete button. Persistent, that Gates fellow.
As it turns out, Change incorporates the Delete function, though there’s a toggle in it should you want for some reason to retain all of Redmond’s handy help files. At this point, I was unwilling to accept their advice on much of anything.
If I had known that thing was going to act up, I’d have bought another Razer during last week’s Woot-Off.
