Buyer beware the Microsoft Touch Mouse does not work with Visual Studio 2010 SP1 without some tweaks

I just got the mouse yesterday. Over all I like it, but may regretfully have to stop using it when in Visual Studio 2010 SP1. The scrolling does not work at all. I know Visual Studio has been plagued with this problem, but come on, this is Microsoft hardware.


I have a review on amazon here , but wanted to get a quick warning out to developers thinking about buying it.

I was hoping for interaction with the Windows 7 Phone Emulator, but there is none beyond the features available with a normal mouse. I expected it to at least work with Visual Studio.

UPDATE 8-3-2011: OK, so I gave it one more try on a third laptop. I did not have IntelliPoint 8.15 64-bit for Windows 7 on it. It installed with just the drivers. It worked in VS, but no gestures. I downloaded IntelliPoint 8.15 64-bit for Windows 7 and it gave me the gestures and VS stopped working.

I repeated that on my other laptop by uninstalling IntelliPoint and the other mouse drivers. Just allowing the USB to get its drivers installed allowed me to scrollin VS, but no other getures work without IntelliPoint 8.15 64-bit for Windows 7 on it. As soon as I installed I got the gestures but VS stops working.


UPDATE 8/4/2010- In order to resolve the issue of not running in Visual Studio 2010 you must run C:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliPoint\ipoint.exe with elevated permissions. Right click on it, open properties, go to the compatibility tab and select Run this program as administrator.

What clued me in was that it did not work with the event viewer either, which was running elevated privileges also.