Microsoft Wheel Optical Mouse
November 7, 2009 | Posted by admin 
- Microsoft D66-00069 Wheel Optical Mouse
- IntelliEye optical technology
- Smooth, precise motion on almost any surface
- Scroll wheel for easy scrolling and zooming
- Works well with either hand
Product Description
Get optical reliability at an affordable price. This optical mouse features a convenient scroll wheel, customizable buttons, and stylish design…. More >>
Categories: Microsoft Optical Mouse | 
Tags: Microsoft, Mouse, Optical, Wheel | 
5 Comments »
This is definitely the worst mouse I have ever purchased. I just bought this in March of 2005 and have had nothing but problems with it!!! It’s nothing more than a true pain in the neck so I would advise against buying this item.
Rating: 2 / 5
This mouse was inexpensive and looks & feels that way. I don’t like the wheel. It’s noisy and clunky and does not spin smoothly. Also, the mouse is just too big for my hand. It’s like trying to steer a brick around on my desk.
I don’t like it. I’m going back to my tiny Targus travel-size optical mouse until I find one I like better.
Rating: 3 / 5
Its was easy to order them, easy to get them, & they work perfectly.
Rating: 5 / 5
Although this mouse has great response, the scroll feature is ridiculously inept. I installed the software, as instructed, but it is of little value. When scrolling, the scroll wheel has little clicks that you can feel. Each click runs the mouse down WAY too many lines. On most pages one click takes you almost to the end of the page. There is no setting anywhere in the software to change this. If you like manually dragging the slider down to move down a page in smaller increments, then fine. Otherwise don’t bother with this mouse. I wish I hadn’t bought it, and since it completed a $25 free shipping order, I won’t hassle with the return. I’ll just end up putting it in a drawer for emergencies and will replace it next week with a better one. You get what you pay for.
Rating: 2 / 5
A perfectly fine mouse EXCEPT that the wheel scrolls itself frequently, apparently because the designer tried to make the force required for each index of the wheel (each turn of the wheel through one “click”) as effortless as possible, which was a nice attempt at ergonomic design, but it backfired, because as your hand whizzes back and forth between mouse and keyboard, the wheel frequently turns itself one click, apparently as if your finger left it perched between clicks. This is MADDENING for a number of reasons. You’re trying to read, and the screen scrolls randomly away from your eye. You’re holding down ctrl in Word, about to make a keyboard command, when the mouse suddenly scrolls itself; and in Word, ctrl-plus-mouse-scroll equals zoom resizing. So your zoom is frequently changing itself. It’s annoying as h*ll and I can’t understand why I put up with it for 12-18 months before one day I realized that it’s more than worth $15 to go buy another mouse that doesn’t pull this garbage a dozen times every day. So I solved the problem in a heartbeat by buying an equivalent mouse of another brand (Logitech). The new one is a blessing because its wheel is sufficiently “stiff”. I never should have subscribed to the false economy of refusing to buy a replacement for the defective Microsoft mouse. It’s more than worth it to remove the daily torture from your workday. If Microsoft fixes the wheel and labels the packaging to communicate that it has been improved, then this mouse would be OK to buy in future. There is nothing wrong with it otherwise.
Rating: 2 / 5