by Rich G
13. November 2009 07:39
We couldn't wa
it to try out the Apple Magic Mouse, nice bit of kit however as we develop using Windows 7 we were disappointed to find the lack of support for scrolling in Windows.
Apple released a Bluetooth Update for their latest IMacs at http://support.apple.com/kb/DL952 however running this on another Mac displays the error "This update is not intended for this computer and will not be installed."
However there is a simple workaround that worked for us, you can just extract the Bluetooth Drivers from the downloaded file above using WinRar, or we've made them available here:
32 bit Apple Wireless Mouse Driver
64 bit Apple Wireless Mouse Driver
This enabled BOTH vertical and horizontal scrolling Firefox and Chrome but not in Windows applications, however this may work depending on what mouse driver you had previously.
If scrolling doesn't work in Windows apps then download Microsofts Intellisense driver from here (Not sure it matters which mouse you choose, but select "Sidewinder X8" to be sure)
Once installed select the "Sidewinder X8 mouse", this enabled Vertical scrolling for all Windows applications.
This was tested on a Mid March Macbook Pro running 64bit Windows 7.
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