I recently purchased a Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse and wanted to turn off the middle button wheel scroll sound vibration. It is possible, however perhaps not obvious.
1) Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 stumble all over each other trying to negotiate a connection. 2) Ubuntu had no problem whatsoever, and it cost me precisely nothing. 3) Some percentage of the Microsoft community takes the haughty, sanctimonious attitude you evidence. Windows 7: Arc touch mouse. On the durability side let's just say it's looks are a bit deceiving. I've folded and unfolded this thing hundreds if not thousands of times and it still locks just as tightly as it did when new. It will take a bit of getting used to but now that I have it is my favorite mouse. I have also yet to find a surface it will not work on.
I've upgraded my Vista-based notebook Acer Aspire 3810t to Windows 7 build 7100 and cannot use my Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 any more. When trying to pair the mouse (after I enter 0000 as a passcode) I get an error: Adding this device to this computer failedThe attempt to add the device resulted in an unknown error.
The error code is:0x8007048f Contact your device manufacture for assistanceBluetooth adapter is Broadcom 2045. Mouse worked great with Windows Vista. Other devices (2 cell-phones) work great with Windows 7. I also upgraded my Vista (x64) notebook, an Asus G50V, to Windows 7 build 7100, but my BNM 5000 worked fine. The other day I wiped the drive and performed a fresh installation of Windows 7 RTM. When I tried to connect the mouse, I received the same error message.
I pulled over the Wireless Console and Bluetooth drivers from Asus, and still couldn't add the mouse. I pulled over the Intellimouse driver/app as suggested by Ronnie, even though this mouse is not in the list of supported mice.
It didn't help. Even rebooted and tried again, still just errors or wouldn't detect the mouse at all. Even though the mouse has sat unused for a couple months, off, I decided to change the batteries. Mouse was detected, connected, drivers got loaded automatically, and it works like it should now.
Removed the Intellimouse stuff, and it still works.Maybe this will help someone else out. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit) - final version - using a Microsoft Mouse 5000. I'm getting errors when I pair my mouse with another device and then come back to this machine. I don't understand how this can possibly happen, but if I set up the mouse with another computer - or even another O/S on the same machine (dual booting), then come back to the original configuration, this message pops up. The only way to correct it is to remove the mouse from the Bluetooth list of devices, and then start the pairing process all over again - every time! I hope there's a better way.! Hello.I've upgraded my Vista-based notebook Acer Aspire 3810t to Windows 7 build 7100 and cannot use my Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 any more.
When trying to pair the mouse (after I enter 0000 as a passcode) I get an error: Adding this device to this computer failedThe attempt to add the device resulted in an unknown error.The error code is:0x8007048fContact your device manufacture for assistanceBluetooth adapter is Broadcom 2045. Mouse worked great with Windows Vista. Other devices (2 cell-phones) work great with Windows 7.I'm getting this error code when pairing my enV Touch and Sony Vaio. The Vaio has bluetooth (printer setup was a snap) but I can't get it to pair with the cell phone. I have Win7 Premium Home 64-bit.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit) - final version - using a Microsoft Mouse 5000. I'm getting errors when I pair my mouse with another device and then come back to this machine.
I don't understand how this can possibly happen,but if I set up the mouse with another computer - or even another O/S on the same machine (dual booting), then come back to the original configuration, this message pops up.The only way to correct it is to remove the mouse from the Bluetooth list of devices, and then start the pairing process all over again - every time!I hope there's a better way.!Hey Red Hagar,how did you solved the problem?ThxPatrick. I had the same hangup too with the repeated error code and failure to pair. Yes, you need to push the 'other button' under the mouse but if the top mouse LED indicator isn't flashing red/green after you push that Locate button, it just isn't resettingcorrectly. I found it's not enough to just remove the batteries for several minutes. You have to turn off the mouse, remove the batteries, then switch the power switch on again (yes, without the batteries!) and I even spun and clicked the mousewheela few times for good measure.
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In other words, there is enough capacitance in this thing to hold charge and a scrambled ID setting for a long time so you have to go out of your way to truly discharge this thing. Anyway, after I did this ExtremeReset routine, then when I replaced the batteries, used the normal Find Device in the Bluetooth window, turned on the mouse switch, and then clicked the other (Locate) button, only then did I see the red/green flashing LEDs. It then found a generic Bluetoothmouse, and proceeding with install made it pair up correctly with a MS5000, just like the very first time.
No problems since! You're right, BillCal, that works!MY problem is the following: I use the Bluetooth-Mouse on 2 systems (Vista and Win7, dual-boot).When I switch between the 2 systems, the mouse is just working on one system. I think, the mouse uses a special ID to be connected to one of the two systems. When I switch to the other system, the mouse needs to be reseted in the way you discribed aboveto get a new ID.As I switch very often, this procedure is to much;)Does anybody know a way to connect the mouse to both systems?I don't think it's possible.ThxPatrick, Cologne. This is the most useful answer. Richard:Given that the pairing instructions shipped with the mouse, (essentially the only thing they tell you is required.), is to press the connect button until the LED flashes in alternate red-green, I'd say your post is a bit of blowhard-izm. Wouldn'tyou agree?And you want to rally on about poor code from Microsoft?
Complaining that they didn't write a driver or mouse firmware that would handle people not following instructions?How about a post where you tried all of these various things because of an ingrained 'Microsoft must be at fault' mindset, but you were pleasently surprized and humbled to find out that merely following the instructions got things working as they should?So, who deserves that Zero out of 10 you mentioned? Oh, I know, ME because I took the time to challenge your assertions. I'm OK with that, but people need to realize dignity is tied to always doing the right thing, and in this case, theright thing is to admit you simply had to follow directions to get your mouse working.Its not about what other people think, how do YOU feel about berating anything and everything BESIDES YOURSELF?Why did I post? Because your post hit a nerve.
It pretty much encapsulates one of the most consistent, most prevalent major flaws in society worldwide today. Blame someone else, shake off personal culpability at all costs.Have a super wonderful day.DAS.
Win7Tester:You know what? I have been a champion and defender of Microsoft for years. I actually like the company's work, I have at various times owned the stock, and I find myself pulling for them consistently - even in their darkest moments, such as having toabandon the rewrite of the Win codebase and start from scratch.But you know why I'm here?Because I'm having the same problem with this mouse as the other posters here. I installed Windows 7 and then found I had to go out of my way to get Bluetooth set up on the machine. Then, after some fiddling with little feedback from either the OS or themouse, I managed to get the mouse paired.Then I installed Ubuntu on that machine, and what do you know?
Ubuntu set up bluetooth automatically. Then, Ubuntu told me my mouse was looking to connect. I put in the code, and I was done.
No fiddling with buttons or batteries.Then I come back into 7, and what do you know? 'Adding the device failed resulting in an unknown error. The reported error code is: 0x8007048f. Contact your manufacturer for assistance.' And so I search on that message, find this page, find people discussing the various manipulations required to get mouse to work, and there at the end is your snide, insulting message to Richard.Here's the bottom line:1) Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 stumble all over each other trying to negotiate a connection.2) Ubuntu had no problem whatsoever, and it cost me precisely nothing.3) Some percentage of the Microsoft community takes the haughty, sanctimonious attitude you evidence.4) Microsoft is in big, fat, trouble.Sorry Richard's post rubbed you the wrong way.
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Yours rubbed me just as wrong. I'm rather sick of people getting all huffy in the face of reality. The reality here is that Microsoft ought to be able to manage better than this, and the best thing that canhappen is for people to call them out on it - particularly when they are surrounded by excuse-makers and rationalizers like yourself.I don't care what kind of day you have, sir. Put a check on your attitude.
I guess you are right, it IS a whole lot of extra work to follow directions and press a button provided for expressed purpose.:)LOLSo, are you saying that you had to do something more than follow the directions and press the link button? I had to do exactly the same thing to 'pair' my Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse, it never once occured to me that I should have been upsetthat I had to follow directions to get something working.You've educated me for sure, I now know I've been wasting my time reading, when I could have hooked it up, then spent hours searching for a fix, when 9 times out of ten the 'fix' is to follow those lowly instructions I now know I'm too smartto follow.DAS. I don't know who you are responding to, given how totally irrelevant your commentary seems to be.
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I'll assume you were arguing against the voice in your head that you imagine is continually assaulting Microsoft unfairly. You keep on with that. It will serveyou well.For other readers, for the sake of clarity, I should have been more clear. Pressing the button in a fashion consistent with the instructions did NOT result in a paired mouse. Following the instructions again didn't remedy the situation.But installing Ubuntu resulting in a paired mouse right off the bat.The point is so simple I assumed Win7Tester would get it - Microsoft is in charge of their OS.
Microsoft is in charge of their mouse. Microsoft is in charge of the drivers between the two. Ubuntu is in charge of precisely nothing.And yet. It was Ubuntu that worked correctly. Anyone who cares about Microsoft sees a problem here.