phaolo Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 (edited) On WinXP I've always used the additional buttons on my mouse to copy\paste text, but on Win7 they seem tied to back\forward in explorer (I don't mean IE). Is it possible to disable\change such behaviour? -- Another thing: is the F12 key reserved for something? I cannot use it anymore in some programs that capture screenshots. -- Btw, some people told me that Ctrl + Printscreen should automatically create different files. Is that true? Where are they saved? Edited April 5, 2016 by phaolo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Install your mouse software and go into it in Control Panel. See if you can re-assign your buttons there. F12 for screenshots, I believe, was a function of the program itself. Some programs (games) it works, some it doesn't or you need to configure it for that. It used to be, that you could use Ctrl+Print Screen to send text directly to the printer. I'm not sure if that is used anymore. I just set my default printer to the XPS Document Writer, and press Ctrl+Print Screen and nothing happened. An aside, I opened paint and pasted a screenshot, so Ctrl+Print Screen seemed to (at least) operate the same as Print Screen on its own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaolo Posted April 5, 2016 Author Share Posted April 5, 2016 1 hour ago, Tripredacus said: Install your mouse software and go into it in Control Panel. See if you can re-assign your buttons there. So, there's no native way to change them? I've already installed the Logitech program, but these buttons get overridden in explorer :\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Maybe we can look it up. What model mouse do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaolo Posted April 6, 2016 Author Share Posted April 6, 2016 (edited) 6 hours ago, Tripredacus said: Maybe we can look it up. What model mouse do you have? Model M510 and the last SetPoint version. Windows 7 is Pro and 64 bit. Btw, the custom functions actually work at first, but get overridden whenever there's a folder "history" in explorer (so, immediately after changing dir in the same window). Edited April 6, 2016 by phaolo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 There are a couple of things relating to Windows indexing XML files. Take a look at these:https://forums.logitech.com/t5/Mice-and-Pointing-Devices/my-OS-is-win-7-m510-does-not-save-the-mouse-settings-for-speed/td-p/1303523 https://forums.logitech.com/t5/Mice-and-Pointing-Devices/M510-drops-custom-settings/td-p/1015301 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaolo Posted April 7, 2016 Author Share Posted April 7, 2016 1 hour ago, Tripredacus said: There are a couple of things relating to Windows indexing XML files. Take a look at these:https://forums.logitech.com/t5/Mice-and-Pointing-Devices/my-OS-is-win-7-m510-does-not-save-the-mouse-settings-for-speed/td-p/1303523 https://forums.logitech.com/t5/Mice-and-Pointing-Devices/M510-drops-custom-settings/td-p/1015301 Unfortunately, those issues seem different from my problem. I should have added more details. In summary: - Logitech config is saved correctly (speed, buttons, etc). - the extra buttons work in most programs (not all, alas). - the extra buttons don't always work in explorer as I explained. I can understand partial program compatibility, but.. explorer? Anyway, I'll check that forum too. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaolo Posted April 8, 2016 Author Share Posted April 8, 2016 (edited) I've managed to solve the issue with a trick. I've added "Explorer.exe" to the Application-specific settings. Edited April 9, 2016 by phaolo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaolo Posted April 17, 2016 Author Share Posted April 17, 2016 Wha.. I thought that I fixed the issue for good, but it's back again! WTF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaolo Posted May 22, 2016 Author Share Posted May 22, 2016 (edited) I was half-wrong about the settings: some are saved, but others not. Or, more exactly, they're all saved to the "user.xml" file, but then some get overwritten with the defaults on next program start. So, I edited the "default.xml" file with my button settings and.. now some are remembered (e.g: Office) Unfortunately, the behaviour in Windows Explorer is still weird. It's incredible that such bug for Win7 still exists! Edited May 23, 2016 by phaolo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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