I'm sure most people have never used a great Windows, Windows Magnifier or Magnifying Glass feature, the one found in Windows 7 in Start - Programs - Accessories - Accessibility while in Windows 10 it is found in Settings> Accessibility > Magnifying glass and that is inside the tools intended for those who have reading problems on the screen and, in general, the use of the computer. The magnifying glass in Windows, having the purpose of supporting the disabled, lacks some important functions and is rarely used by users.
This is because, by default it is not possible to zoom in / out with the mouse. To try the magnifying glass right away, just press the Windows + or Windows - keys to zoom in or out.
Thanks to the AeroZoom program, you can instead use the magnifying glass of Windows 7 and Windows 10 to create a remote control useful for managing full-screen presentations, only with the mouse, without ever touching the keyboard and making a great impression. With AeroZoom, users can perform many mouse tasks, for example, turn color inversion on or off, follow the mouse pointer, focus on a part of the screen and zoom .
Aerozoom then, after starting it, brings up a control panel made of keys to be pressed with the mouse, which allows you to activate the magnifying glass and zoom in and out with a click of the mouse. The software works in the background and the remote control is not seen until the left and right mouse buttons are pressed at the same time. This opens a list of keys that appear at the cursor position and can be used to change the Windows Magnifier (or magnifying glass) options including: the ability to disable the colors in the area selected with the zoom, to disable the mouse in so that the chosen part of the screen remains always in view, follow what is typed with the keyboard and follow the insertion point of the text.
Then there are some additional buttons: to display the magnifying glass window, to make it disappear, to open the capture tool of a part of the screen, to open the calculator or the Wordpad.
Basically, in theory, you could use this zoom mode to highlight, for example, the important parts of a video presentation, using only the mouse, but without ever leaving the overall view. Holding down the left mouse button, moving the wheel up and down, zoom in and out on the part of the screen chosen. By pressing the left and the middle key, the settings are reset and the magnifier returns to the initial aspect.
The program does not require any installation, it is portable, it is free with a GPL license (can also be used in the company environment) and is also supplied with the left-handed executable, for those who use inverted mouse keys.
So if we had seen in the article on assisted internet navigation some tools to have the magnifying glass and to obscure parts of the screen, now we are trying to make it productive in a practical context.
AeroZoom works well but requires some initial practice to adjust with the mouse keys and with the movement on the wheel which, if done too fast, does not zoom. As I see it, the idea is excellent only that it would need to be refined to have greater fluidity of movement and more control over the zoom.
As a more simplified alternative, there are two programs for zooming and drawing on the desktop
