Brad Heap » Drivers http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog One kiwi's news and views on politics, science, computers, god, religion, and other ramblings from Sydney, Australia Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:11:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Getting USB Browser Mice to work in Vista http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2010/02/getting-usb-browser-mice-to-work-in-vista/ http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2010/02/getting-usb-browser-mice-to-work-in-vista/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:01:08 +0000 Brad Heap http://www.brad.net.nz/blog/?p=2594 Continue reading →]]> I have had this issue with a number of mice and a number of different computers now. Some older USB mice will not work when you plug them into Windows Vista. What happens is a dialog appears saying installing software and then fails saying unknown device.

The fix for this as I just found out this morning is quite simple:

  • Click on start
  • Right click on computer
  • Select properties
  • On the left side of the dialog that comes up select device manager
  • Scroll down the list of devices to the known device
  • Right click and select Update Driver Software
  • Select chose from a list of drivers
  • Select Human Interface Device
  • Select HID compliant mouse
  • Click okay and the mouse should now work

Simple. And Windows had the drivers to make it work all along! Sometimes Windows does some really simple things wrong and as a result is just so frustrating. It is a mouse it should just work!

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