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In my Win10 64 system I'm using an old but reliable laser mouse, with standard buttons on top (two buttons + central clickable wheel) and two side buttons. Since no "official" drivers are available from the (extinct) manufacturer, the OS "sees" the mouse as a standard MS PS/2.
The device is working regularly for standard operation and the PS/2 driver allows me to configure the top buttons and wheel, but obviously it does not provide any configuration options for the two side buttons, which should not exist. However those side buttons do actually work, as they produce, for example, "back" and "forward" moves between pages inside web browsers. This seems to prove that the OS actually detects those buttons and also their events. So I thought that the links between those events and the associated actions must be written, saved, stored somewhere. Logically, the most appropriate place should be the registry and, consequently, those informations should be editable with the regedit program.
Any ideas or suggestions about where they can be found?
PS. I know there are many third party utilities which, once permanently installed and running, can be used to tweak mouse functions in many ways, but I'm not interested in those. I'd rather like to understand, from a... SuperUser's point of view (:] ), where Windows stores the information it uses to assign actions to those side buttons ("back" and "forward" in web browsers and so on).
harmand
Posted 2019-03-03T18:22:32.207
Reputation: 1
3"Logically" the settings isn't in registry. The mouse driver does all the things. If you want to customize those button use AutoHotKey script. – Biswapriyo – 2019-03-03T18:39:26.767
I said "logically" because, as far as I know, the OS keeps most of its settings in the registry and the PS/2 driver, in its settings interface, seems to totally ignore the existence of the side buttons. So my deduction seemed (and seems) to me logical, sensible. Possibly wrong, but sensible. I said, anyway, "the most appropriate place should be the registry", as I did not have absolute certainty.
As to AutoHotKey, as I said I don't want to install additional software, so I'm afraid I'll have to live with my almost useless side buttons. Which, fortunately, is not a serious problem. :] – harmand – 2019-03-04T07:38:50.100