] I just bought a new 3 button mouse for the convenience of better cut and ] paste, and find that I can't seem to make it work. When I first got it, I just Most likely your mouse is (like mine) a dual mode mouse. Check if it doesn't have "PC" and "MS" written somewhere around the ball hole. For sometime this kind of mouse came with a nice switch below it that would select the mode, but then god-knows-why they changed it to an "insanely great" approach: the mouse defaults to micro$oft mode, which uses only two buttons (don't ask); if you want it to work in MouseSystems mode, which has three buttons, you have to turn on your PC holding the left mouse button down. This ain't no joke, although it looks like a joke from those %#@@!#$ing mouse manufacturers. You don't _really_ have to turn your computer off and on again just 'cause of this fscking mouse, it suffices to unplug your mouse and plug it back again while holding down the left mouse button. Of course I allways forget this "intuitive" trick when I have to shutdown my box for maintenance/upgrade/etc. Just for the record, I've tried all kinds of tricks, like setting those weird X options to disable DTR or RTS on the serial port, but none worked. The only thing that makes this sick mouse use the middle button is the unplug/plug windows approach.