Slow mouse

[BoB]

Hi
I have just bought a Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop,
Keyboard and mouse, everything is installed and working nice
but I cant seem to get the mouse to move fast enough, every
thing is set to fast in set-up but its not quite as fast as I like it.
is there a tweak I can try to get a bit more speed?
Also, is there a way of assigning the side-to-side scrolling
buttons to the page back and forward buttons on a web browser
as it is lacking the thumb and little finger buttons I had on my
Intellimouse.
Thanks in advance
Bob

 

[Philip Herlihy]

Re speed: There's usually a setting called "acceleration" or sometimes
"precision" which "gears up" the pointer speed if you move the mouse faster.
Might do the trick.