Get Your Mouse to Perform These Tricks for You

Today we will look at your trusty, industrious mouse, and see what fast ones it can make for you. That friendly vicinity gnawer can sometimes drive you brainsick when you cannot happen the arrow on the screen. Other than that, you may not pay much attending to it. So here are a few things you can make with that mouse.

Click Start, Control Panel, Mouse. Or you may have got to chink Start, Control Panel, then something like Printers & Other Hardware, or Hardware (NOT Add Hardware). Now you are at the Mouse Properties dialogue box. Chink the Pointers tab, and in the Scheme section, chink the small down arrow and seek different show options for the pointer. You will immediately see your choice to the right of the small down arrow. For a somewhat startling result, seek for example, "Windows Black (extra large) (system scheme)".

Now travel on to the Pointer Options tab. In the Visibility section, bank check the box marked "Display arrow trails"; move the mouse around to see the result. Adjust the length of the trail to your taste sensation by moving the skidder back and forth. It should now be easier to happen the arrow on your screen. You may also desire to check up on the box, "Show location of arrow when I press the CTRL key". That should help!

Click the Buttons check for more than options you can experimentation with. If you have got a mouse with a wheel in the middle, chink the Wheel check and set the scrolling speed, or action. Finally, chink all right to go out the Mouse Properties window.

While we are on the topic of that center wheel, here is yet another bang-up fast one your mouse will perform. When you are on a Web land site or in a data file or document, chink that wheel. You will see a double-edged arrow on your screen. Travel the mouse slowly up or down without clicking, and the silver screen will follow. Travel it sharply, and the silver screen will coil fast. Chink the wheel again, or either button, to cancel.

It takes some getting used to, but if you are like me you will soon love this characteristic and usage it often. Note, however, that it makes not work in some written documents and on some Web sites. If your mouse makes not have got a centre wheel, see getting a new mouse equipped with the wheel. They are not expensive, and the wheel is very convenient and useful.