READMENT.TXT - October 2001
KENSINGTON MOUSEWORKS SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS NT
Software version 5.61
This document describes the latest version of Kensington MouseWorks
software for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. (For notes on Windows 95, 98,
and Me, please see the file README95.TXT; for notes on Windows 2000
and Windows XP, see the file README2K.TXT.)
Table of Contents
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I. Installation Instructions
II. Things to Watch Out For
III. History of Changes
IV. Known Issues
V. Control Key Special Effects
VI. 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! - Microsoft recommends that you update your Emergency Repair
======= Disk (ERD) before installing any new device driver software.
This will help you quickly recover from a conflict, should
the need arise. For instructions on how to use the RDISK
utility to create and update an ERD, see your Windows NT
documentation.
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.
Before you try to install MouseWorks, whether it be from a CD-ROM,
floppy diskettes, or from a file downloaded from our website, make sure
that you are logged onto your Windows NT system with an account that
has sufficient user privileges to modify the registry.
Windows NT 4.0 does not have native mode support for USB devices. For that
reason, Kensington USB-PS/2 devices will not work when connected to the
USB port.
Installing MouseWorks from CD-ROM
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Insert the MouseWorks Installation CD into your CD-ROM drive. The
Setup application should launch automatically, but if it does not, then
1. Click the Start button and choose 'Run.'
2. Then, click the Browse button and choose the CD-ROM drive.
3. Select Mworks\setup.exe and click 'OK' and install the software.
4. Follow the prompts and directions on screen. Simply hitting return
at each screen will select the defaults. This is appropriate for the
vast majority of users.
II. THINGS TO WATCH OUT FOR
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1. 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.
2. 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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0217- Scroll Ring direction control on scrolling tab is not hot-unplug-aware
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. The HTML Help has been updated to reflect the changes in this version
of MouseWorks.
4. 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
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"
0077- EasyLaunch labels on DirectLaunch tab display incorrectly
0078- Left/Right buttons on WebRacer scroll in Help
0079- Mouse Trails difficult to select
0102- Windows Control Panel mouse button swap setting errors
0170- Paste Text does not work
0188- AutoScroll fails in MS Access, PowerPoint
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
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1. Certain newer Kensington devices, when used with MouseWorks on SMP
(symmetric multiprocessor) machines running Windows NT 4, sometimes
cause random freezes or crashes. The cause of this is unknown and is
being investigated. If this happens to you, uninstall MouseWorks. The
devices which may be affected by this problem include the TurboBall,
Expert Mouse Pro, and TurboRing trackballs and the MouseWorks mouse.
2. 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.
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 pretty obscure problem.
4. Instant Menu does not work in any of the Office 97 applications or
in Internet Explorer 4.0. This is due to a new style of menu bar
control created by Microsoft that makes reading the menu entries
impossible.
5. Several features of MouseWorks may not work correctly under Internet
Explorer versions prior to 3.0.
6. 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" with Office 97 Style scrolling
selected 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
is fixed in Internet Explorer 4.01 and later versions.
7. Using an ELO touchscreen device or a Wacom tablet causes conflicts with
the MouseWorks software. The button handling code that the two pieces of
software use are not compatible.
This can be fixed by putting the following entry in your registry at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\KMWNT\Skip Drivers
key name - "firstport"
key value - "Monmouse" for ELO touchscreen device
key value - "PenClass" for Wacom tablet
This will tell the MouseWorks software to leave this device alone.
8. DirectLaunch buttons on WebRacer and Expert Mouse Pro do not work reliably
with Netscape Communicator 4.72 under WinNT4.0. Sometimes a second
press or a longer press is needed to make a preset work. And when the
browser is running, presets do not work at all. This does not affect
Internet Explorer or versions of Netscape earlier than 4.7, and does not
occur under Windows 98.
9. Real Player also installs files with '.prx' as their
extension. With Real Player installed, the MouseWorks installer
will prompt a warning from Windows NT complaining about
a conflict in file associations. In such a situation, please
choose not to associate '.prx' files with MouseWorks.
10.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
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1. The 'Application Key' and 'Windows Key' do not work when invoked
through the virtual keyboard.
2. 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.
V. CTRL KEY SPECIAL EFFECTS
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- 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 clicking on the options menu while holding down CTRL, an extra
item, named compatibility, will show up at the bottom of the menu.
- 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. 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
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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.
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