README95.TXT - October 2001
KENSINGTON MOUSEWORKS SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS 95/98/Me
Software version 5.61
This document describes the latest version of the Kensington MouseWorks
software for Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me. (For notes
on Windows NT, please see the file READMENT.TXT, and for notes on Windows
2000 and Windows XP, see the file READMEW2K.TXT.)
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
I. Installation Instructions
II. Things to Watch Out For
III. History of Changes
IV. Known Issues
V. Control Key Special Effects
VI. Tips
VII. How to Contact Kensington
I. INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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WARNING! - Before starting the install process, close all active
======= running applications, and save your data.
WARNING! - Please make sure that you are using a release version
======= of Windows 95/98/Me before installing the Kensington MouseWorks
software. Pre-release "betas" are not supported.
MouseWorks software is provided on a CD-ROM or as a downloadable file.
It is no longer available on floppy disk. Users who do not have a CD-ROM
drive can request an older version of MouseWorks software on 1.44 MB floppy
diskettes from Kensington Technology Group's Tech Support department.
Installing MouseWorks from CD-ROM:
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To install the Kensington MouseWorks software onto your Window 95/98/Me
system:
Input Device when connected to the PS/2 port:
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If the device is connected to the PS/2 port, when Windows 95/98/Me comes up,
the'Add New Hardware Wizard' will identify it as a Microsoft PS/2 compatible
mouse and will automatically proceed to install the Microsoft PS/2 mouse
driver. After the 'Add New Hardware Wizard' completes its task, you can
proceed to install MouseWorks software from the CD.
Insert MouseWorks software CD into your CD-ROM drive. The Setup
application should launch automatically. If it does not start
automatically, then
(1) Click the Start button and choose 'Run.'
(2) Then, click the Browse button and choose the CD-ROM drive.
(3) To install the software, select Mworks\setup.exe and click 'OK'
and follow the instructions.
Input Device when connected to USB port:
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With the only exception of Mouse-in-a-box USB, USB support for all other
Kensington input devices is limited to Windows 98 or higher.
IF YOU USE A MOUSE-IN-A-BOX USB UNDER WINDOWS 95, PLEASE USE THE SOFTWARE
THAT CAME IN THE BOX. MOUSEWORKS 5.6 DOES NOT INCLUDE SUPPORT FOR THIS
DEVICE UNDER WINDOWS 95.
You can plug in a USB device without shutting down the computer. When you
plug in the Kensington input device, Add New Hardware Wizard will spring up
and will identify the device as a Kensington input device and will proceed to
install USB Human Interface Device support. After this process is complete,
insert the MouseWorks CD into your CD-ROM drive. The Setup application should
launch automatically. If it does not start automatically, then
(1) Click the Start button and choose 'Run.'
(2) Then, click the Browse button and choose the CD-ROM drive.
(3) To install the software, select Mworks\setup.exe and click 'OK'
and follow the instructions.
Input Device when connected to Serial Port (COM Port):
======================================================
If the device is connected to the serial port, when Windows95/98 comes up,
it will work as a standard two button mouse using the standard Windows
drivers. [The procedure for installing WebRacer is slightly different and is
described later.]
Insert MouseWorks software CD into your CD-ROM drive. The Setup
application should launch automatically. If it does not start
automatically, then
(1) Click the Start button and choose 'Run.'
(2) Then, click the Browse button and choose the CD-ROM drive.
(3) To install the software, select Mworks\setup.exe and click 'OK'
and follow the instructions.
WebRacer on the Serial (COM) port:
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If WebRacer is connected to the serial port, when Win95/Win98 comes up, the
'Add New Hardware wizard' will identify it as an 'Unknown' device and will
request the CD-ROM that was provided with WebRacer.
DO NOT INSERT THE WEBRACER SOFTWARE CD.
Do not allow the 'Add New Hardware Wizard' to install the software.
Click on the <Cancel> button on the 'Add New Hardware Wizard' window.
Once you click on the <Cancel> button, 'Add New Hardware Wizard' will
quit.
Now, insert the WebRacer Installation CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive.
The Setup application should launch automatically, but if it does not,
then
(a) Click the Start button and choose 'Run'.
(b) Then, click the Browse button and choose the CD-ROM drive.
(c) Select Mworks\setup.exe and click 'OK' and install the software.
The Kensington MouseWorks Control Panel will be installed in the
"Start" menu under "Programs."
II.THINGS TO WATCH OUT FOR
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1. INTERNET EXPLORER 4 AND WINDOWS 95/98: On certain machines running
Windows 95 or 98 (but not Windows Me), Application Sets are not
recognized for Internet Explorer version 4. This means that it is not
possible to have application-specific settings that will work properly
in that particular browser. If you encounter this problem, we recommend
either updating your copy of Internet Explorer to version 5.0 or later,
or using a different browser such as Netscape Navigator.
2. Mouse speed and acceleration of Kensington devices are completely
controlled by the Kensington MouseWorks control panel. If you are also
using a non-Kensington mouse, only the Windows Mouse control panel
settings apply to that mouse.
3. If you are left-handed, use the Kensington MouseWorks Control Panel to
change the Right button to produce a Left button response and the Left
Button to produce a Right button response. You must do so in that order,
since at least one button must be defined as producing a Left button
action at all times. Note that MouseWorks controls the button mapping
only for Kensington input devices; for non-Kensington devices, use the
"Buttons" tab of the Windows Mouse Control Panel.
III. HISTORY OF CHANGES
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Changes in MouseWorks 5.61
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Feature Changes:
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1. MouseWorks now features a completely revamped installer, as well as
other internal changes required to qualify for Microsoft's "Designed for
Windows XP" logo.
2. Added support for several new products, including PocketMouse Pro.
Bug Fixes:
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0158- Installing or Reinstalling MouseWorks invokes New Hardware Found Wizard
for USB devices
0174- DirectLaunch pane does not show up on hot-plug of Expert Mouse Pro
0217- Scroll Ring direction control on scrolling tab is not hot-unplug-aware
0233- "New Hardware Found" wizard asks for mouhid.vxd after installing
MouseWorks
0272- Control panel fails to remove a USB device that has been physically
unplugged
0277- Control panel does not consistently update when devices are
added/removed
0295- Direct Launch buttons do not work properly with AOL 5.0 and AOL 6.0
0382- Paste Text sometimes omits or duplicates characters
0388- 'exshow.exe not found' error message sometimes appears on hot-plug of
USB device
Changes in MouseWorks 5.6
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Feature Changes:
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1. Printing has been removed.
2. The "Presets" tab is now called the "DirectLaunch" tab, in keeping
with the terminology used for Expert Mouse Pro.
3. Running the MouseWorks uninstaller now removes ALL MouseWorks-related
files from your hard drive (including preference files). Previously,
uninstalling simply removed registry entries so the driver files would
not load, but this was found not to be entirely reliable.
4. The HTML Help has been updated to reflect the changes in this version
of MouseWorks.
5. The URL attached to the Online Registration... command in the Help menu
has been updated.
Bug Fixes:
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0001- MouseWorks remaps buttons of Non-Kensington devices
0024- (Re)installing resets Presets to their default states
0051- Text label on Acceleration Tab does not match device type
0054- Running applications do not appear in list
0055- AutoScroll cannot be deactivated in Netscape
0057- Unrecoverable internal error when modifying application sets
0065- Control key sticks on when activated via a Preset button.
0067- Popup menu shows Custom response instead of "Click."
0070- Application sets for Internet Explorer do not work
0072- Cursor goes crazy due to conflict with other mouse driver &
0077- EasyLaunch labels on DirectLaunch tab display incorrectly
0078- Left/Right buttons on WebRacer scroll in Help
0079- Mouse Trails difficult to select
0088- "?" buttons still exist but do not work
0091- USB/PS2 input devices not recognized properly on Compaq Armada
1750 on PS/2 port
0098- Very large preference files become corrupted
0102- Windows Control Panel mouse button swap setting errors
0130- Installer Not Replacing PS/2 Driver Thereby Causing Conflict
With IntelliMouse Driver
0133- MIAB Optical Pro PS/2 info in the control panel about box incorrect
0157- Orbit ADB/USB does not get identified as such in Windows 2000 and
Windows Me
0159- Cursor growth not available
0168- Instant Menu pops up twice
0170- Paste Text does not work
0172- Mouse Search Options ignored by Win98
0188- AutoScroll fails in MS Access, PowerPoint
0199- Cursor visibility options do not function correctly
0216- "Insert Disk" message is worded incorrectly
0221- Kensington Style scrolling does not work in AOL 5.0
0222- Clicks not recognized while mouse is in motion
0227- TurboRing scroll direction affects scrolling on other input devices
0231- Brilliant Cursor hotspot definition defaults to On and change can't be
saved
0243- Browser shortcuts cause MouseWorks settings to be lost
0076- Confusing multiple entries in the Device Manager.
Previously, MouseWorks always installed two entries in the Device
Manager by default, in order to guarantee that both a serial mouse
and a PS/2 mouse would work correctly at the same time. However,
for most users the two entries were not necessary, and the one that
was not being used had a yellow exclamation point (or "bang") next
to it. Removing this entry would cause your pointing device to stop
working.
Now, MouseWorks installs only one entry in the Device Manager
(unless you are upgrading and previously had multiple Kensington
devices attached to your system)> This fix has some consequences:
1) If you have both a serial and a PS/2 mouse attached, only the
PS/2 mouse will work after the initial installation. To enable
the serial mouse, you must manually go through "Add New
Hardware." and point it to the Kensington MouseWorks driver.
2) If you have one of our devices connected to USB and *nothing*
connected to PS/2 or Serial, you'll still get a yellow bang,
at least on some machine configurations. It can be safely
removed, but on restart the system will put it back (it will
say it found a device and is installing software for it).
When the entry is put back it will no longer be using the
MouseWorks driver. It will be using the standard PS/2 driver,
and it will still have a yellow bang--but it will function
properly nonetheless. If you later add a PS/2 device, you
must change the entry to use the MouseWorks driver.
3) If you hook up a Kensington PS2/Serial device (such as some
models of Expert Mouse or Orbit) to the Serial port of a
laptop (assuming the built-in pointing device is PS/2), it
will not be recognized automatically and you will have to
manually go through Add New Hardware. Furthermore, if you
then remove the serial Expert mouse, you get the yellow
bang.
Changes in MouseWorks 5.5
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1. Added support for new device: Expert Mouse Pro
2. Fixed a bug which sometimes caused USB/PS2 devices to be incorrectly
recognized as a 2- or 3-button generic mouse.
3. Fixed a problem affecting certain laptop models, such that the built-in
pointing device was not disabled automatically, and the cursor would
jump around the screen randomly.
IV. KNOWN ISSUES
================
1. There are known problems with Keystrokes actions and their handling of
Caps Lock:
a) When processing a Keystrokes action, no consideration is currently
taken as to the state of the Caps Lock when the sequence of
characters is sent to the system. If you have Caps Lock on prior
to activating a Keystrokes action, all keys in your sequence that do
not specify Caps Lock will wind up as upper case, and all keys in your
sequence that are defined as Caps Lock PLUS your key will actually
wind up as lower case, the opposite of what they should be.
b) In a Keystrokes action, sending CapsLock+X (where X is some key) will
toggle the caps lock state, instead of asserting caps lock for that
key only.
2. When clicking the mouse and moving at the same time the clicks can
sometimes be delayed such that the click does not occur at the
appropriate location. This becomes more evident when the chording
time-out value is increased.
This problem can not be solved in the initial release of Windows 95
due to a bug in system services which does not allow for the absolute
positioning of the mouse cursor. The best work around we can give
at this time is to make sure the chord time-out value is set as low
as possible (if chording is not used turn the time-out value all the
way down - move slider to right until chord icon greys out).
3. When buttons are redefined to include modifiers as part of their
response and they are pressed in conjunction with other buttons the
modifiers are not held down correctly. For example when right button
is redefined as sending shift+alt+right and the right is pressed and
held down and the left is pressed and then released the modifiers
associated with the right button press (alt+ctrl) are not held
down with the right button. This is a rather obscure problem.
4. On some Compaq machines with power management built in there have been
some problems returning from monitor suspend modes. When the mouse is
moved to cause the monitor to come back to life the system sometimes
freezes. This is very intermittent and has only been observed using
a Compaq Qvision 2000 driver/hardware combination running in 800 by
600 true color mode.
This problem is fixed by updating the QVISION 2000+ driver to
version 2.01 rev A available on the Compaq WWW site.
5. Instant Menu does not work in any of the Office 97 applications or in
Internet Explorer 4.0. This is due to the new style of menu bar control
introduced by Microsoft that makes reading the menu entries impossible.
6. Internet Explorer versions prior to 3.0 will not work correctly with
MouseWorks.
7. The following scrolling options do not work in the release version of
Internet Explorer 4.0:
Scroll Up
Scroll Down
Scroll When You Move The Mouse
AutoScroll
Also "Scroll When You Move the Mouse" (Office 97 Style) only scrolls the
Internet Explorer window when the mouse is moved very fast. This is due to
a bug in Internet Explorer 4.0 and it has been fixed in Internet Explorer
4.01.
8. Brilliant Cursor Hotspot definition window does not pop up on
certain machines, like HP Pavilion.
9. On certain machines, like HP Pavilion, 'Paste Text' does not work
sometimes. When it does not work, it blocks mouse clicks for a
short period of time.
10.RealPlayer also installs files with '.prx' as their
extension. With RealPlayer installed, the MouseWorks installer
will prompt a warning from Windows95/98 complaining about
a conflict in file associations. In such a situation, please
choose not to associate '.prx' files with MouseWorks.
11.On some machines, screen savers that use OpenGL, like 3D Flower Box,
cause an invalid page fault in module KERNEL32.DLL. We belive
this is due a bug in Windows and for that reason have not been
able to fix it so far. However, we are in touch with Microsoft
to resolve this issue.
12.Installing MouseWorks on some models of Compaq Presario, disables the
sound. Resolution to this issue is being worked on actively.
13.Microsoft Intellimouse (USB version only) scroll wheel does not scroll
at normal speed when MouseWorks is installed. Resolution to this issue
is being worked on actively.
14.The "DirectLaunch" tab in the MouseWorks control panel is not
hot-plug aware. So, if you have the MouseWorks control panel running,
and then plug in an Expert Mouse Pro, the DirectLaunch tab won't
automatically show up; you must exit the application and relaunch it.
Likewise, if you unplug the device while the control panel is open,
the DirectLaunch tab won't disappear.
KNOWN ISSUES SPECIFIC TO WEBRACER
---------------------------------
1. If Netscape Communicator is your default browser, the 'Home Page'
preset button does not do anything, unless you explicitly define
a home page. In other words, if the home page has been left as its
default URL, i.e., http://www.netscape.com/, pressing the preset
button for 'Home Page' does not do anything.
2. If you have multiple profiles set up under Windows 98, you need to
restart the machine every time a new user logs in the machine in
order for the bookmark list to be updated properly. Otherwise,
you will always get the bookmark list of whoever logged in first
after starting the machine.
3. The E-mail button does not work under America Online (AOL).
4. If you use the virtual keyboard to perform complex key combinations,
the wrong menu may drop down. This is rather an obscure issue, since
the virtual keyboard is normally used only for entering text, not
for choosing menu commands.
5. While the virtual keyboard is active, trying to bring up any menu
(for example Instant Menu or Application menu) while the cursor is
on the Virtual keyboard will display a blank menu-box. Once you
move the cursor outside of the Virtual Keyboard the text on the
blank menu-box will become visible.
V. CTRL KEY SPECIAL EFFECTS
===========================
- In the MouseWorks Buttons tab, holding down CTRL while clicking on the
response menus, you will see an extra response at the bottom of the
menu. This is the custom action response. Information on this feature
can be found in the MouseWorks help system.
- When the control key is held down while viewing the acceleration tab,
and the Fine acceleration checkbox checked, a table button will appear.
The dialog that comes up in response to this button allows for very fine
tweaking of the acceleration response curve. The meaning of the values
presented is documented in MouseWorks help system.
- In the shortcut dialog (displayed when a shortcut response is selected
from the response menu) hold down CTRL to change the OK button to a
Convert button. This will convert the selected shortcut action into its
custom parts and it will be displayed as such from then on (i.e. the
cancel shortcut will be displayed as a keystrokes response that sends an
escape character. Note that the label for the response maintains the
shortcut name).
- BRILLIANT CURSOR: Choose any tab other than the Movement tab, then hold
down the CTRL key while clicking the Movement tab. To adjust the Brilliant
Cursor HotSpot Definition keys, hold down the CTRL key while clicking the
Options menu, and choose Brilliant Cursor....
VI. TIPS
========
1. The Kensington MouseWorks software now allows you to send "Windows"
keys from your mouse. To do this, use the "Shortcuts" button feature,
and select either the "Windows Key" or the "Application Key" shortcut.
2. Touchpad Scrolling on WebRacer is more responsive in Microsoft
Internet Explorer 4.0x, if you disable the 'Smooth Scrolling' option
in Internet Explorer's preferences.
VII. HOW TO CONTACT KENSINGTON
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Kensington Technology Group
2000 Alameda de las Pulgas, Second Floor
San Mateo, CA 94403 USA
phone:
Technical support only: (800) 535-4242 (US and Canada)
All other inquiries: (650) 572-2700 (voice)/(650) 572-9675 (fax)
email:
info@kensington.com (For general information)
tech@kensington.com (For technical support robot)
help@kensington.com (For technical support human)
http://www.kensington.com
Copyright (C) 2001 Kensington Technology Group, a division of
ACCO Brands, Inc.
All Rights Reserved
Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
For more help, visit our Driver Support section for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.