I think we can all agree if I said that the mouse is the most underrated accessory of the computer, without it, it would not be possible to work effectively (even if in another post I said how to use the PC without a mouse using the keyboard) . The typical mouse has only three main parts: the left button, the right button, and the central wheel.
The left button, on Windows, is the execution button, the right one is used to bring up the contextual menus while the wheel is used to scroll on the windows or, by pressing on it, to do other things (for example, if pressed on the links to websites, opens the web page in the background in another browser tab).
The functions of the mouse wheel can be improved with some small and simple applications that work on Windows Xp, Vista and Windows 7.
In particular, you can use the mouse wheel to change the transparency of windows, to scroll windows that are not active or in the background and to resize them .
For the " I can't believe it's not there " series, you can finally add the option to scroll the window of an application that is not currently active .
On normal Windows, having two or more windows visible on the screen, to scroll vertically, you must first click on it, make it become active and then use the mouse wheel.
If the two windows were partially superimposed, the active one would cover part of the other and this could be annoying.
So here is WizMouse, a small tool that allows you to scroll windows from above to below, even if they are not active.
As a bonus, it is also possible to use WizMouse to force scrolling via the scroll wheel in applications that could not be done.
After installation you can decide whether to start Wizmouse with Windows and other small configurations.
The same thing more can be done instead with another tool called Kat Mouse.
Kat Mouse offers can give the mouse wheel three additional functions:
1) allows the wheel to scroll through active and inactive windows in the same way, without having to click.
2) Pages that are too wide can be scrolled sideways (otherwise scrolling is only vertical).
3) When you click with the mouse wheel on an empty space, it becomes active and the window below or is iconized appears in the foreground.
Only to scroll the windows on the screen even if they are not active and without having to click on them, you can use the simpler AlwaysMouseWheel tool
Third program to add nice features to the mouse wheel is Feewhee .
This is a small, portable 4Kb tool (not installed) developed to resize and change the transparency of the active active .
Since Microsoft neglected these two important functions even in Windows 7, this application provides a perfect solution that also works on XP and Vista.
After launching the file, FeeWhee acts in the background without giving any notification.
If you put the pointer on the title bar of the window and use the mouse wheel, it will resize becoming bigger or smaller.
If you hold down the Shift key and then move up and down with the wheel, the transparency is changed.
If a window becomes completely transparent, it becomes a nice game to be able to find it.
Strong isn't it?
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