How to use the new instant viewer feature of my mouse without losing middle click functionality?

July 7, 2007 12:12 PM

How to use the new instant viewer feature on Microsoft mouses, without losing middle click functionality?

My mouse has the option of setting up any of its buttons to activate the instant viewer, but since my mouse has only three buttons and I use middle click all the time in firefox, I am reluctant to sacrifice middle click for the instant viewer. What I'd really like is to be able to bind instant viewer to a button on my keyboard or perhaps to a combo click (e.g. left click plus middle click activates it). Any thoughts on how to make this happen?

I tried using the program specific control to give firefox middle click while with anything else it activates instant viewer, but it wasn't working properly with instant viewer activating sometimes even when firefox had focus. (I have windows XP)

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/features/instantviewer.mspx

posted by vegetableagony to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

Best answer: If you can disable Instant Viewer completely, you could use another program to provide the Expose functionality. I use OpenExpose and like it a lot (although I haven't used Instant Viewer and I'm unsure how the features compare).
posted by null terminated at 1:08 PM on July 7, 2007

Switcher (http://insentient.net/) is also excellent for Vista, and free. It can be assigned to any keypress, mouse press, hotspot area, and provides both expose and a 'dock' view.
posted by davemee at 2:39 PM on July 7, 2007