Pairing Microsoft Presenter Mouse 8000 on Mac OS X
I absolutely love my Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000. It’s a small Bluetooth mouse and my MacBook has built-in Bluetooth so I have a nice travel mouse with no dongle! It was working fine on Vista using BootCamp. This week I decided to repave the MacBook and tried to get the mouse working on OS X. I got nowhere using the normal Bluetooth device discovery technique in OS X. The computer could see the mouse but it repeatedly failed to pair.
I finally found a technique in a forum that worked for me:
- Turn on the mouse
- Press or hold down connect button until light flashes alternating red and green
- Click Bluetooth tray icon; Browse Device…
- If the device “Mouse” is not in the list click search, then click browse.
- Next to search button it will say “Device does not have the necessary services.”
- Click Cancel; Quit Bluetooth File Exchange
- Open System Preferences; Bluetooth; Devices section
- Settings section; Click the device ID in the list of your mouse, Add to Favorites
- Turn Bluetooth Off, Turn Bluetooth On
- Light should stop blinking and the device will show up with status “Connected: Yes” in bluetooth device list.
(big thanks to macrumors user viper0440)
I also installed the latest IntelliPoint software for Mac OS X, which let me configure the pointer speed and reprogram the side buttons (one to open Dashboard and the other Expose).
Why did I repave my MacBook? I’ve been hearing great things about VMware Fusion. VMware Fusion lets you run Windows in a virtual machine on Mac OS X. It is the VMware equivalent of Parallels. I’ve been anxious to try it. It is supposed to boot a BootCamp partition but I kept getting a “Raw Disk Creation Failed” error message so I decided to start from scratch. It’s working great with a virtual hard disk.
Freegas
8 Aug, 2007
Thanks a lot! I was so close to loosing my last hopes. This trick worked fine for me.
MarkJar
10 Aug, 2007
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.
md
3 Sep, 2007
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.
johne
7 Sep, 2007
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.
Curtis
10 Sep, 2007
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!!!
vik
16 Nov, 2007
This doesnt work with Leopard (no option to add to favorites ) any ideas ???
OMAC055
9 Dec, 2007
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.
humbertohi
20 Dec, 2007
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?
jason l
3 Jan, 2008
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.
CompuDude
27 Feb, 2008
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!
CompuDude
27 Feb, 2008
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.
viktor
3 Mar, 2008
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
bob
22 Apr, 2008
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.
Matt Wynne
12 Nov, 2008
A mighty hack. Thank you.
laucro
7 Feb, 2009
Thanks! After so much hassle, your step by step instructions were brilliant.
Andrew
16 Mar, 2009
I have the Microsoft Notebook Mouse 5000, which works very well for me. However do you know if you can use the bottom presenter buttons as a light-weight media remote (volume, fast-forward, etc.)?