Comments on: Pairing Microsoft Presenter Mouse 8000 on Mac OS X

by: bob

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:55:47 +0000

Running Leopard Macbook Pro 4gb ram

Using MS IntelliPoint 6.22 & MS Presenter Mouse 8000

I found that the tracking on the mouse was off (skipping) not smooth.

I pulled out my trusty can of Dust Off and blew the %^&* out of the leaser hole.

All works

All Buttons work.

by: viktor

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:37:01 +0000

Thanks, it is much better to use the mouse without BT dongle.

Adding to Favorites in Leopard:
- choose mouse from the BT devices list
- click on the little gear on the bottom of the list and choose “Show more info”
- in the list of infor choose Favorite
- click on the little gear again and add to Favorites

by: CompuDude

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:49:32 +0000

Oh, one last thing: I never let the MS bluetooth dongle anywhere near my laptop. All internal bluetooth. Unless the older systems like mine work better than the newer ones, I seriously don’t get what all the trouble people are having is all about. I’m running 10.4.11.

by: CompuDude

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:48:08 +0000

It’s a good thing I didn’t read up looking for help. I have a 15″ powerbook G4, and I need to give a Keynote presentation next week, so this bluetooth device seemed perfect. I bought this mouse, tore it open in my car, still in the shop’s parking lot, and slammed in the batteries. Turned on Bluetooth, chose Setup Bluetooth Device, Chose Mouse, pushed the little button on the bottom of the mouse, and an odd numeric string showed up. I picked it, allowed it to pair without a key when it asked, and BAM it worked. Well, the wheel and two main buttons worked. Good enough to start.

Once home, I installed the MS driver, hoping I could get the bottom buttons working. No such luck, so I googled around and found out about the new MS driver (6.2.2), pulled it down and installed. Well, now the other topside buttons work well, but still no luck with the bottom presentation buttons, sadly.

Looks like I’m SOL until MS decides to fully support it’s own buttons. Fortunately left click works great, and advances to the next slide. Right click backs up. This should get me through the presentation, so I think I’ll hang onto the mouse. I’m very glad I waited, since it was $95 the first time I saw it, and I picked it up on sale just now for $50. Score!

by: jason l

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:04:18 +0000

i started following these instructions for setting up my mouse on my new Leopard installation (it worked great on Tiger), but decided to just try pairing the device. and it worked! just make you follow step 1 and 2, but click Set Up Bluetooth Device, choose the mouse, and it will pair perfectly.

by: humbertohi

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:26:58 +0000

I’m using a Microsoft Presenter 8000 Bluetooth mouse on my Macbook Pro. I use the Microsoft Intellimouse software so I can map my side buttons and because I can’t stand OS X’s mouse acceleration with an actual mouse.

I have the mouse tracking speed maxed out but the speed is still too slow. I upgraded the intellipoint software to mac version 6.2.2 (released on december 12th, 2007). The device is detected and “connected” but not shown as paired at the bluetooth hardware preferences menu. The dongle was not necessary at all. Still, the tracking or pointer speed is too slow for me.

I also noted something strange: when the mouse is all set up and “working”, I go straight to the keyboard and mouse hardware preferences menu and modify the tracking speed to about the fourth of fifth line and it works just fine! However when I close this menu and go back to work with any other application, the tracking speed returns to its sluggish movement.

I wonder if this is related to the “connected but not paired” issue?

by: OMAC055

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:08:49 +0000

Thank goodness for folks you. I struggled with this for weeks - put way to much time into trying to get my mouse to work and had no luck.

Thank you thank you thank

Really appreciate the tip.

by: vik

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:29:28 +0000

This doesnt work with Leopard (no option to add to favorites ) any ideas ???

by: Curtis

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:48:10 +0000

Awesome this little trick worked wonders. I was pulling my hair out having to use an HP usb mouse and man did it make my desk look lame!!!

by: johne

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:14:41 +0000

I found out that if you install intellipoint 6.2.1 Mac driver softwareit fixed all the precision problems that I was having also! I also have the Wireless Desktop 2.0 and it fixed other things with that too (like the key next to the space now maps to the apple key)

I should also mention that my new MacBook Pro (latest with LED backlight) had no problems pairing with this mouse. But I did have precision problems.

by: md

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:42:35 +0000

Great. I just bought an mx8000 and couldn’t get it to pair with my ‘06 iMac 24″. This trick worked great, and you’re the first google hit.

by: MarkJar

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:12:11 +0000

Wow, unbelievable. I tried to get this to work for a long time, and this did the trick - thanks!. One comment, I didn’t have a “Bluetooth Tray Icon”, if you don’t, launch “Blutooth File Exchange” under Applications/Utilities, same thing.

by: Freegas

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:35:15 +0000

Thanks a lot! I was so close to loosing my last hopes. This trick worked fine for me.