El Capitan and Microsoft Mouse (IntelliPoint) Not Working

Anonymous
2015-09-11T14:32:37+00:00

After installing the El Capitan GM, the forward/back buttons (side buttons, 4 & 5) on my Microsoft Wireless Mouse 5000 are only registering as left mouse buttons. The most recent driver, Microsoft Mouse 8.2 is installed and shows up in the System Preferences, but appears to not be functioning. MicrosoftMouseHelper is in the login items. Suggestions?

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-10-04T15:22:42+00:00

    The latest version of USBOverdrive did work for me.  It got the buttons on my Intellimouse Explorer working again.

    http://www.senlick.com/html/01.01.html

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-10-03T14:37:18+00:00

    I did what you recommended and my mouse still doesn't work correctly.  I cannot set the speed of the mouse.  It doesn't change regardless if I set it to slow or fast.  Is there anything else I can try?

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-10-01T20:11:44+00:00

    Steermouse (http://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/) worked for me, but it's not right to have to pay another $20 just to use my existing mouse. I didn't test USB Overdrive (http://www.usboverdrive.com/USBOverdrive/Devices.html), but I'd wager it would work, too. Hoping MS updates their driver to work without messing around in Terminal. Yeah, I can do that, but my mom can't.

    (And why is this now in Windows? It's a Mac OS problem!)

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-10-01T19:57:27+00:00

    To make Intellipoint and the Microsoft Mouse prefpane work in El Capitan, you don't have to disable System Integration Protection (SIP) entirely. You only have to disable one aspect of it. Here are the steps:

    1. Restart your Mac.
    2. Hold Command-R until the Apple logo appears.
    3. From the Utilities menu, select Terminal.
    4. In the Terminal window, type this:

    csrutil enable --without debug

    1. Press Enter/Return. This turns off the part of SIP that will let you run Intellipoint.
    2. Type reboot and press Enter/Return to restart your Mac.
    3. After the restart you can install Intellipoint. Restart again once you do, and you're set.

    UPDATE: dbonneville reported on 10/05/15 that you may need to unplug your mouse and then plug it back in. You may also need to plug it directly into your Mac if you are not already doing that.

    If it still doesn't work, follow steps 1-7 again, and this time in step 4, run this command instead:

    csrutil disable

    If it still doesn't work even after unplugging and replugging your mouse, I would reenable that option with this command:

    csrutil enable

    I personally only use IntelliPoint for the "IntelliPoint pointer speed" which feels perfect to me, and also the ability to change the wheel button to "Magnify" so I can just press it once to zoom in and then again to zoom back out.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-10-01T04:24:07+00:00

    Intellitype software doesn't work on El Capitan because of the System Integration Protection feature.

    I disabled rootless through the recovery partition using the csrutil command in the Terminal window. Only then I was able to run Intellitype and Intellimouse apps.

    Apple strongly recommends to leave rootless enabled.

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