GadgetBuilder
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- Newtown, CT
As background, I'm a long time XP Home user who moved to Win8 Pro 64 + Classic Shell about a month ago, so I'm still making the transition. Part of this transition is getting used to UAC...
I use a Kensington Expert Mouse trackball and this doesn't have 64 bit drivers. MS installed their default mouse driver so I added X-Mouse and programmed the buttons to simulate, as best I could, the original Kensington driver. This works OK except when UAC pops up -- the X-Mouse button mapping isn't used by UAC so I must remember to use the buttons as they were prior to mapping. UAC doesn't pop up that often but now I've installed Win8 on my wife's machine where she uses a regular mouse (its buttons don't change because they're not mapped) and I find I have to stop and think about which machine I'm on and which button to push. I don't understand why UAC ignores X-Mouse's button mapping, which works fine with everything else?
The other UAC wrinkle I've encountered is that a couple of my frequently used legacy programs cause UAC to pop up each time they're started. I use the Win7 trick of a scheduled task that is invoked directly to get around this which works but takes some time and effort to set up for each legacy program. So, I'm wondering if there's an easier way built into Win8?
I use a Kensington Expert Mouse trackball and this doesn't have 64 bit drivers. MS installed their default mouse driver so I added X-Mouse and programmed the buttons to simulate, as best I could, the original Kensington driver. This works OK except when UAC pops up -- the X-Mouse button mapping isn't used by UAC so I must remember to use the buttons as they were prior to mapping. UAC doesn't pop up that often but now I've installed Win8 on my wife's machine where she uses a regular mouse (its buttons don't change because they're not mapped) and I find I have to stop and think about which machine I'm on and which button to push. I don't understand why UAC ignores X-Mouse's button mapping, which works fine with everything else?
The other UAC wrinkle I've encountered is that a couple of my frequently used legacy programs cause UAC to pop up each time they're started. I use the Win7 trick of a scheduled task that is invoked directly to get around this which works but takes some time and effort to set up for each legacy program. So, I'm wondering if there's an easier way built into Win8?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 Pro - 64 bit
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Homebrew
- CPU
- AMD 4850e 2.5Ghz
- Motherboard
- Foxconn A7DA-s
- Memory
- 4GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- HD 6450
- Monitor(s) Displays
- HP ZR22w
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 x 1080
- Hard Drives
- HyperX 3K 120GB SSD
- PSU
- Antec 380S
- Case
- Antec Sonata
- Keyboard
- IBM clicky
- Mouse
- Kensington Expert Mouse Pro - trackball
- Internet Speed
- 12/1.5mb - ATT Uverse
- Other Info
- Built to be quiet with low power dissipation