How can I program my mouse to utilize browser functions?

Your best bet would be the control panel for the mouse itself. A gaming mouse, with extra buttons, will likely have a control panel that overrides the generic one that comes with Windows. Or it may look the same, but it would have extra tabs for the extended features. Compatibility mode does nothing for a device driver. You should install the Windows 7 driver as such.

I’m not familiar with the model you have, but you can sometimes program the extra buttons to be interpreted as keystrokes or other application specific actions.

Did you look on the mouse manufacturer’s web site to see if there’s a software upgrade for Windows 7?

well I have had some limited success by messing around with the macro function on the mouse’s software…the hotkey for back on firefox is alt+left-arrow-key. I program the macro and assign it to one of the buttons, but after pressing the button and wittnessing the browser go back, it then seems to be locked in hotkey mode or something..every button on the keyboard I press after pressing the mouse button activates it’s associated shortcut function and it will not enter text into fields until i press ctrl-alt-del.

I’m starting to get a new problem now…this is very frustrating…..now it seems my audio is cutting off randomly on my headphones, seems to coincide with the glitches associated with use of the mouse. the mouse will occasionally deselect a window and render it incapable of left and right click functions, though I can still move the mouse fine. only way to fix this is by either unplugging the mouse plugging it back in, pressing ctrl+esc or ctrl+alt+del.

As cool as this mouse was, Im starting to think it’s not worth the trouble…as im ready to bash the piece of shit against the wall.

Yes there was a driver update on the steelseries website, I’ve installed and reinstalled it (among other things) several several times, no change in glitch sympthoms

OK I finally have fixed it (a little)

Still having all of the same intermittent glitches mentioned above but I was able to successfully program one of the extended buttons on the mouse to utilize the back function on my internet browser. Don’t ask me why this worked, but after changing the programming of the individual button to facilitate the macro function, I then changed it back to it’s default function which is listed as “windows button 4” and now it works.. stupid computers.

I always found when something did not work right to uninstall it, restart, and reinstall it. The other way to go, is to go to the original installed program that came with the mouse and use the setup options there and go to the manufactures website for an updated driver. It is always the drivers that will do you in.

like I said, I’ve reinstalled the drivers multiple times…hell I even reinstalled windows 7 at some point…I did try installing the drive that came with the mouse but that comes with its own unique set of problems. The problem is that this mouse predates windows 7 and is specifically designed to use WoW, which I don’t play anymore. It’s a great mouse for playing the game, it improved my performance worlds over, but that’s where the convenience stops apparently. My suspicion is that SteeleSeries does not employ the same software engineers since the release of the mouse in question and it was on the new employees to rehash the driver for windows 7, which they very clearly did not exhibit a lot of talent at.