Wow it's f---ing ridiculous how short the login timeout is on these forums. I just spent an hour drafting this message only to see it vanish into thin air when the login screen came up and I browser-backed out of it. What a waste of 45 minutes. Long story short: I use a Logitech MX510 (8-buttons) and wanted to use the back/forward mouse buttons in my Parallels Windows install. I'll try using my Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse 5000 (5-buttons plus 4-way scroll) when I get to work to see if that works as well. To get this to work, first install Logitech Control Center. http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/downloads/software/US/EN,CRID=1792,contentid=6034,OSID=9 You can use the default settings, but it's also useful to remap the Wheel click to Advanced Click:Click/Button #3. Also, I remapped the mouse up/down cruiser buttons to Keystroke:Left/Right arrow keys, so they kind of function as 4-way scrolling. The LCC default settings for the back and forward mouse buttons map keystroke Command-Left and Command-Right to them, which is useful in the Mac world, but only causes the Start Menu to pop up in the Windows world. (Note: mapping Advanced Click:Click/#4 and #5 to back and forward mouse buttons useless since no Mac OS X apps seem to respond to those mouse buttons.) So, second, install KeyTweak in your Parallels-hosted Windows. http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/ This allows you to remap keys in Windows at the registry level (which means no keyboard programs running in the systray to get this to work). Use KeyTweak to remap key 59 to Left Alt key and key 60 to Left Windows key. It seems backward, but it works for the purposes of this workaround. This means the Mac Alt/Option key now functions as the Windows key, and the Mac Command key now functions as Alt, which actually better resembles the Windows keyboard layout anyway. Most importantly, it properly interprets your mouse left/right button mappings for Windows. You're done, whoopee. One more thing, if you're using a full-size Mac keyboard (not the laptop keyboard), you can also fix the number pad Enter key, by remapping the "Mac NumPad (=)" key to NumPad Enter. The "Mac NumPad (=)" is located at the right of the KeyTweak interface. Peace.
