Software

When you hook up the MX Master it automatically prompts you to install the software. Officially you don’t need any software to use it, but there are a few features that you can only toy with by getting into the software. Like the Logitech gaming products, the software for the MX Master is multi-use and works with other Logitech products as well. It does not, however, work with Logitech’s gaming software. It uses Logitech Options. The main screen that opens up gives you a photo of the MX Master from the top and from the left side where the buttons are. Each photo has green dots over each button. Clicking on any of them gets you a short drop down list of actions you can set the button to do. The list is noticeably shorter than a gaming mouse, but we can still get the basics. Clicking more at the bottom opens up everything else up, some of the options are windows 10 specific like Cortana but you can also cut, copy, and paste, features I think I would be more likely to use than most of the “gaming” mice have. There is also a sleep option and a shutdown, both seem really risky to have on an easy to reach button in my opinion.

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The Point & Scroll section is where all of your other options are. Here you can speed up the pointer speed for example. We know the MX Master can go up to 1600 DPI but it would be nice to see at least what setting you have it on, the settings give you no indication. The smartshift settings let us adjust the smart scroll wheel that unlocks and freespins automatically.

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You can also set application specific functions. A good example of this for an everyday person would be excel or office specific functions that you might use more than in other situations like copy and paste.

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garfi3ld replied the topic: #38035 22 Jul 2016 20:15
Today for something a little different I check out the wirless MX Master from Logitech!

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