Hi! I’m really really new to blender and I just downloaded blender 2.56 because I was using 2.49 but the tutorials I was following used 2.5 and the interface was confusing me. So when I open blender 2.56 it seems to work okay but then I can’t move the view with the Alt+LMB is there something I need to do? I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it and downloading python again I’m not sure.
File / User Preferences / Input tab, select the ‘Emulate 3 Button Mouse’ tickbox. Then Ctrl+U to save this as a default.
Wow! Thank you that is much better.