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Mice
When you connect a mouse to y our tablet and move the mo use,
an arrow-shaped cur sor appears, j ust as on a computer :
• use the mouse to move the cursor.
• Clicking, pressing , and dragging with the mouse butto n is
equivalent to touching, touching & holding, and dragging with
your nger.
• only one mouse button is su pported.
• if your mouse has a trackbal l or scroll wheel, y ou can use it to
scroll both verticall y and horizontall y.
other input devices
You can connect joysticks , gamepads, and other inpu t devices
to your tablet. if they work wi thout special dr ivers or adapters o n
your PC, they will likely wor k with your tablet. However, gam es
and other apps must be desi gned to suppor t any special fea tures
of an input device, such as d edicated but tons or other co ntrols, to
take full advantage of them.
Connect to a Windows computer via USB You can use a usb cable to connec t your tablet to a Windows
computer and trans fer music, pi ctures, and other les in both di-
rections. This conne ction uses the MTP protoc ol, which is sup-
ported by most recent ve rsions of Windows .
When you connect your ta blet to the usb port o n your computer,
its usb storage is mounted as a dr ive and appears on yo ur com-
puter screen. You can now copy les ba ck and forth as you would
using any other externa l device.