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
    2015-12-14T18:34:31+00:00

    Actually, I found a way to use Keyboard Maestro to reprogram ALL the user keys including not only 1-5 but also Home, Calculator,

    Applications, etc. Simply user the trigger "This device key", then click on any key on the keyboard and it will be accepted.

    I would post a screen shot of how simple this is but even the least quality I can generate greatly exceeds the allowed message limit. Strange. My Keyboard Maestro macros to launch an app on my Mac contains but a single command in addition to the trigger. Namely, "Open application-name".

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-11-30T17:23:06+00:00

    I have the same issue. Would love to have a working IntelliPoint driver for MacOS El Capitan.

    How can I inform the IntelliPoint development team about the issue? Only found a phone number to contact on the Microsoft Hardware site.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-11-02T00:00:19+00:00

    I found a kind-of/cheap fix.

    Uninstall the prefpanes for Intellitype & Intellipoint- they don't do anything at this point, and can interfere with the base system behavior in a negative way.

    Open System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys

    Select your keyboard, and swap Option and Command.

    Unfortunately, to get smart keys back or extra buttons on the mouse, a piece of 3rd party software like better touch tool is needed.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-11-01T16:35:21+00:00

    I had switched to MS ARC Mouse after my hands started having severe pain with Apple MM. ARC had worked with all features in Yosemite but I had to include MicrosoftMouseHelper application in Login Items.

    After upgrade to El Capitan it works as standard mouse only. I could install Intellipoint software by allowing it in System Preferences / Security & Privacy while it installed. Then I came across this thread and tried all these but no luck. Intellipoint is getting installed without any issue always with changes in Terminal or without it but Back button and centre wheel button do not work. I even included  MicrosoftMouseHelper in Login Items as before. No luck.

    Tried installing Bettertouch Tool but is not quite user friendly like MS Intellipoint.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-10-30T18:57:35+00:00

    Problem solved:

    The problem I encountered with SteerMouse is the terminology used its control panel interface.  When you set "Primary Click", you'd expect this to mean a normal, simple click of a mouse button, but no.  This apparently only happens with "Secondary Click".  When I gave then left and right mouse buttons the "Secondary Click" option, then they finally started functioning properly. 

    However, one of your mouse buttons must be given the "Primary Click" option -- SteerMouse insists on this because it assumes you will not have a functioning mouse if none of your buttons are set to "Primary Click".  I chose to give the "Primary Click" option to the scroll wheel as I have never used the click option on the scroll wheel before. 

    So long story short, giving "Secondary Click" options to both left and right mouse buttons gave me back my mouse.

    This is not entirely true because my mouse no longer can change tool features in Abobe Illustrator with one click.  I now have to toggle the Option Key and Mouse and the click-scroll through each tool to get the tool I am looking for.  This feels like an odd hoop to have to jump through, and a tad bit annoying, but I think I can start doing it quickly and easily with a bit of practice.  At least I have my IntelliMouse back, that is a big deal... at least until OSX10.12 comes out.

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