<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nWhen to install SetPoint<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nTo assign a variety of functions to your mouse buttons or keyboard F-keys and hot keys.<\/li> If your mouse has more than 5 buttons. Windows has built-in support for five-button mice, but if your mouse has more than five buttons then you\u2019ll need to install SetPoint to support the extra buttons.<\/li> If your mouse is a Logitech G-Series gaming mouse, then you will need to install Logitech Gaming Software (LGS) instead of SetPoint. If your mouse has a tilt wheel and you want to use it to scroll left and right in traditional Windows desktop applications like Microsoft Excel.<\/li> To assign shortcuts for common Windows* 8 functions to your keyboard\u2019s F-keys.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\nWhen you don\u2019t need SetPoint<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nSetPoint is not required for the following mouse functions that are built into Windows\u00ae 8: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Left click<\/li> Right click<\/li> Middle click<\/li> Back\/forward buttons for navigating Web pages<\/li> Scrolling<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\nIf you want to assign other functions to your mouse buttons, then you can use SetPoint to change their functionality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Functions that only work with Windows 8<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nStart Screen: When Start screen is assigned to a mouse button or keyboard key, pressing the button will take you directly the Start screen. A second press will take you back to your previous location.<\/li> Show Desktop: Takes you to the desktop in Windows 8. Minimizes open application windows in Windows 7.<\/li> Switch Applications: This function cycles through your open applications one at a time with each button press.<\/li> Charms: Opens the Windows 8 Charms bar.<\/li> App Bar: Opens the App Bar in Windows 8-style applications.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Logitech Setpoint software for most Logitech mouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1834,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getitpc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/downloads\/1621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getitpc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/downloads"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getitpc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/downloads"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getitpc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/getitpc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/downloads\/1621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getitpc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getitpc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getitpc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}