Every time I wanted to scroll down a screen, I had to move my mouse pointer over to the scroll bar on the right, click it and drag it down. I can remember the days before this wheel and boy, they were tough.
Actually, there is no Save button to hit.Īdjusting the Mouse Roller WheelThe mouse wheel is the best invention to hit the computer in the last twenty years. To switch which does what, all I need to do is locate the drop-down menu right below the line that says “ Select your Primary Button.” I’ll click it and choose either the left or the right. Traditionally, the left button is primary. Or more specifically, which button is the Primary button and which is the Secondary.
The reason I bring this up is because in Windows 10, we have the ability to swap which buttons control the left and right clicking on our mice (or mouses). I’ve never double right clicked on anything, so I don’t think that’s even an option. Once the menu appears, I’ll need to left click on one of the selections to make something happen. In Windows, if I right click, I’m presented with a menu of possibilities for action.
There’s no need to double click a link on a web page. The internet consists of hyperlinks that only need to be clicked on once to carry out an action. Remember, don’t confuse the operations of working inside of Windows with the operations of working on the internet. If I want to open that folder, I can double click it. If I head into a folder, I can select a file by left clicking on it once. If you double click, whatever the possible action is, it’s carried out. Think of a file or a folder as a target for some action to come in the future. If you single click, you generally select something. You can either single click it or double click it. Simply put, in Windows, the left click selects something and carries out some sort of an action. Switching the Left & Right Mouse ClickDo you know what the difference between the left mouse click and the right mouse click is? No? Well, let me help. Once I do that, I’ll find myself at the Mouse settings window. The next button I’ll click on is called Mouse & Touchpad. Next, I’ll go ahead and click on Devices. When the menu opens, I’ll click on the Settings menu item, which I’ve circled in red above.Īfter I click on the Settings button, the Settings menu will open.
Remember the time I wrote a post that covered the many aspects of the Windows 10 Start menu? If you don’t, you should really check it out. Launching the Mouse SettingsTo adjust these two settings, I’ll click the Start button to open the Start menu. Both settings are extraordinarily simple to edit, so this shouldn’t take much time at all.
First, we have the setting that controls which button is the primary one and which is the secondary and second, we have the setting that controls how many lines are scrolled per one roll-click of the mouse roller.
Today, I offer you a quick post that will explain exactly how to go about adjusting two mouse settings in Windows 10. Working with the mouse is critically important to a user’s sanity and if that mouse is too slow, too fast or all around annoying, the user might just go crazy. I’s say this is one of the very first settings I edit after getting a new computer.