From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

I had the same shock a while ago. Funniest part is that mine is a USB
mouse, so it doesn't actually even need the driver... it works perfectly
well as a generic wheel-mouse.


Antti Kurenniemi
(gotta love this stuff, especially when behind a modem connection)

"Geo."  wrote in message
news:3e6f93ab$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> So I went to download the current driver for my Intellimouse (wheel mouse)
> today. I was absolutely shocked to find that it's a 10mb download.
> http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouse/download.asp
>
> Anyway, I finally figured out why, it appears to be a 200k driver and the
> remainder is EULA agreement... I couldn't believe this, the eula is 6
pages
> when printed..
>
> Oh and then if that's not good enough, after installation it offers to
allow
> you to register it over the internet.
>
> Oh and then as if this still isn't enough, IT REQUIRES A FRELLIN REBOOT!
>
> Geo.
>
>

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