Does your Razer DeathAdder suck?

Bought a Razer DeathAdder months ago and I like the look and feel... unfortunately it has annoying problems...

• The middle click couldn't be assigned to a true middle click. Somehow it functioned correctly in IE tabs. But that was it. It doesn't work on tabs in VS 2005 or anything else it seems. A test app I wrote to display received WM messages showed that the middle click (no matter what it was assigned to in the razer drivers) sent no messages at all! Very confusing though since it worked for IE tabs... I guess somehow IE intercepted the middle click before the razer drivers? *shrug*
• Sometimes seems to miss clicks.
• Buttons often feel sluggish.

Solution?
Just uninstall the drivers. You lose the special crap they have in there but you can use it without the desire to smash it against the wall.

I almost submitted a ticket with razer support, but decided I just don't care. I'm sure the development team is aware, and if not... I just don't care. The last thing I want is a template response from a low level non-technical employee being paid minimum wage to run interference.

Vista w/ Powertoys Power Calculator (PowerCalc)

Move to Vista, and now you miss your Power Calculator Powertoy?

Downloading & installing is problematic. The exe installer just extracts an .msi so you can't use xp compatibility on it. I couldn't find any way to trick msiexec.exe to install the .msi either.


But, if you have a copy of XP installed somewhere... you are in luck! Just copy PowerCalc.exe from \windows\system32 to vista somewhere, then create a shortcut and modify to run in xp compatibility mode.

Ahhhhh