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Old March 13th, 2015, 04:25 AM
Ensign Tzap Ensign Tzap is offline
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Originally Posted by Digerati View Post
It is up to the hardware maker to supply compatible drivers for newer operating systems so you might try contacting Kensington. I note on their web page, they have a new trackball driver dated February 2015. But note too a lot of legacy hardware (and software too) is just not compatible with new operating systems.

But also, many hardware makers refuse to continue development of drivers for legacy hardware because committing the resources is not cost effective when there are so few of the old devices still in use. And that's true because they get $0.00 in return for the time and labor expended.

But it is also true they don't continue legacy support in part, because they want you to buy new hardware.

From what I can find while looking for a solution here is the new Trackballworks software from Kensington works for some folks, but not others. And for some of those "others" Xmouse works. But for many, nothing but a new trackball works.
I tried the latest version of Trackballworks software.
It installed just fine, but can't see the trackball since it isn't using a kensington driver.

I have also gotten my old version of MouseWorks 6.22 to install using XP Compatibility Utility.
But comes up with the same issue, and won't even try to install the old Kensington driver to replace the Microsoft driver.

I'm going to go back and read the old MouseWorks Install and setup Text file.
Maybe I need to install the Software first.
Then plug the Trackball in, and see if Win 7 will then use the old 32-bit Kensington drivers.

UPDATE:

Still no luck getting this to work the way I want.

But while I was on ebay, I'm seeing even more outrageous prices on the older Kensington TrackBalls.

Some Hackers must know something the rest of us don't.


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Last edited by Ensign Tzap; March 13th, 2015 at 09:22 PM.
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