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I'm going to submit a support request from their website on the software. The other thing I've noticed now that I've used it for some gaming tonight is that the thumb button has a glitch - about two thirds of the time, pressing it results in a click, but releasing it results in another click. So, it's like a slow double-click. I use that button for toggling my autorun on and off, so the result is that it toggles it on and off almost immediately. The handling of the mouse is still good and despite being a different shape and size from my old one, I like the feel.

My old mouse is a Logitech MX-1000, which is an awesome mouse, IMO. It's heavy and a bit too big for some people, but it fits my hand well. It's about three years old and the mouse wheel doesn't work if there is too much pressure used to turn it. I may stick with it for gaming and use the new one as my regular mouse. In some games, I don't use the thumb button, so it will be fine.

Scratch that - figured the software out. It's because I use a higher dots per inch setting with my graphics to make icons and text larger. So the bottom part of their software window, where you click 'apply' in order to change settings, wasn't visible because the larger text size setting was pushing it 'below the window' (off-screen, so to speak). It's a combination of me using something that is non-standard (although a standard option in video settings) and them not bothering to write their software to take that into account.

In reading the reviews, a somewhat recurring problem with the left mouse button has been that single clicks start becoming double clicks. I've only used it a few hours and am starting to have that problem, but with the thumb button instead. Otherwise, everything else is great so far. There is another button on the right for the ring finger, so I may re-map the thumb button setting to it and see how that goes. For the price, it's a great mouse, but not if you have to replace it in a month. If I get six months out of it, that will be okay. If I get a year, that will be great. My MX-1000 was a gift, but was $70 at the time. That works out to about $23 per year. Now that I think about it, it might be 4 years old, so maybe less than $20 per year.