Map mouse xbuttons to keypress?

Question

the utilities that come with my HP vector mouse are fairly basic. My old logitech G9, the best mouse ever made (except when it gets senile and starts having 'gaps') had a utility to map each of the buttons to a keypress, which I use in games, such as xbutton1 and 2 for run, etc.

is there a utility, or a way, that I can map the 2 xbuttons on my new mouse so that they generate/simulate a keypress? I'm wondering if there are built in mappings in Windows that do this already, and its just a case of finding out what the keypresses are?

thanks, Will

Answer 1

I use AHK scripting to map for that sort of thing. Check it out. Its a language that fills a niche and has other cool uses. Just make a little script to have the Xbuttons hotkey whatever key or do whatever string of keys you like and then compile it and add it to your startup folder. I have tons of hotkeys such as windows+n to make notepad show up or windows+c to make the calc show up.

http://www.autohotkey.com/