Logitech V200 Wireless Mouse - Software
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Software
The mouse can be used immediately -- plug the USB transceiver into an open port, and Win XP will automatically detect it as a three-button scroll wheel mouse. If you want to use the left and right scroll features, though, you will have to install the included software. The CD included with my mouse has Setpoint software version 2.31 for cordless mouse and keyboard; however, a quick jump online revealed that v3.10 is available for download.
If you install from disk, the software will want to install Music Match. What that has to do with wireless mousing, I don't know, but there it is.
The Setpoint software is pretty comprehensive -- each of the buttons is programmable, but if you want to use the middle button in its standard middle button configuration you can; you just have to go to "Other" and "Middle Button," which seems a little counter-intuitive, but I guess Logitech assumes that most users will want to use a different mode. At any rate, one can program key combinations into a button as well, which can be useful. Also useful is the Game Detection setup. This allows you to program the mouse to act a little differently when playing games.
The software installation also comes with a "Connectivity Utility" which is supposed to get the mouse to connect to the computer, but it appears to do nothing outside of popping up a little window that tells you to check your batteries and hit the reset button on the bottom of the device.
Us computing old-timers have long had a love-hate relationship when it comes to Logitech. The company has a history of providing innovative (quality) products for computer users (they had ergonomic mouses, trackballs and keyboards long before Microsoft ever did), but their drivers had a hit-or-miss tendency. If they worked, they worked seamlessly; but when they failed, it tended to happen spectacularly with conflicts, crashes, and quirkiness.
In this case, though, I haven't found any problems outside of a lateral scrolling issue. That is certainly not a critical failure, just an annoyance.
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