Windows 7 and wireless mouse

[J_herb]

I have a Acer Aspire One netbook windows 7 home premium 64bit.
I have a wireless MS mouse and it works fine using the left side to click on things but the right side doesn't do anything, is their a setup that I need to do? or is it windows 7 thing ?
On my desktop with windows XP my right mouse works great lets me do several things. Thanks in advance, Jay

[J_herb]

robsouth wrote:

J herb wrote:
I was lucky as I don't really know what I am doing.

Don't feel bad, I don't know what you are doing either.

robsouth,
so you will know what Iam doing,Iam reading your posting and having a good laugh and going to eat some ice cream and kick back the rest of the day. So now you know what Iam doing, have a good weekend.

[robsouth]

J herb wrote:
I was lucky as I don't really know what I am doing.

Don't feel bad, I don't know what you are doing either.

[J_herb]

I want to thank everyone for your help,I don't know why I didn't think about the mouse in the control panel. I went in and mess with the settings for the mouse and got it to work. I was lucky as I don't really know what Iam doing.

[1492]

Not a WIN 7 issue. It has to use Windows standard mouse drivers to function at all. But go into Device Manager, and make sure it indicated the device is working properly.

[eubank]

Ditto on strollin's comment.

Does your middle button (click the scroll wheel to open links in a new tab) work?

🙂
Lynn

[strollin]

J herb wrote:
I have a Acer Aspire One netbook windows 7 home premium 64bit.
I have a wireless MS mouse and it works fine using the left side to click on things but the right side doesn't do anything, is their a setup that I need to do? or is it windows 7 thing ?
On my desktop with windows XP my right mouse works great lets me do several things. Thanks in advance, Jay

Unless you have changed the settings to disable the right mouse button then there shouldn't be any need to download a driver from the MS site as Win 7 should support it without any additional drivers. It should work the same in Win 7 as XP.

Are you using the same mouse on the XP computer? If it's the same mouse and the right button works works on your XP computer but not on the Win 7 computer then definitely check the settings in Control Panel and if OK, try downloading the latest driver from the MS site. If it's not the same mouse, then it could be that the right mouse button is defective.

[downtheroad]

Or you can go to Microsoft and down load the driver for your particular mouse model.

[campinginthewoo]

Hi Have you tried going to control panel click on mouse and you should find settings for your mouse buttons to find control panel click on start and then go to control panel