Mouse Buttons GP

[karldenton]

Is there a way in group policy to switch primary and secondary buttons on the mouse ?

[Firefox]

I would imagine this isn't a general setting already in place, but I guess there is no reason you cannot create a custom template.

 

My only question (and just out of interest) is why?

[karldenton]

Even a VB Script to run at logon would work.

We're a special school and its been recommended by an Occupational Therapist that a particular child uses the mouse buttons the opposite way round as its much easier for him

[Firefox]

Below is something I found on another site, so can take no credit for it's successful or failure

 

"Swap the mouse buttons' behavior and meaning

You can programmatically swap the meaning of the left and right mouse buttons, to account for your left-handed users. All you need is a call to the SystemParameterInfo API function

 

Private Declare Function SystemParametersInfo Lib "user32" Alias _

"SystemParametersInfoA" (ByVal uAction As Long, ByVal uParam As Long, _

ByRef lpvParam As Any, ByVal fuWinIni As Long) As Long

Private Const SPI_SETMOUSEBUTTONSWAP = 33

 

' swap the two mouse buttons

SystemParametersInfo SPI_SETMOUSEBUTTONSWAP, True, ByVal 0&, 0

To restore the regular mouse behavior, you need a second call to the same API function, but passing False in its second argument:

 

' restore regular mouse buttons behavior

SystemParametersInfo SPI_SETMOUSEBUTTONSWAP, False, ByVal 0&, 0"

 

 

Swap the mouse buttons' behavior and meaning

[Guest drewinc]

The registry setting :

 

User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse]

Value Name: SwapMouseButtons

Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)

Value Data: (0 for normal, 1 = swap buttons)