Virtual Scroll Wheel

Virtual Scroll Wheel can simulate a scroll wheel from a wheelmouse. You can use this for example on a laptop with a touchpad that just has two mousebuttons but no physical scroll wheel or scroll area. With an easy double right click Virtual Scroll Wheel gets active and you can “rotate” the wheel by moving the mouse up and down. One more click and Virtual Scroll Wheel gets inactive and you can use your touchpad as usual. The demo version is limited to 10 minutes of use. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Sure enough virtual reality is closer than ever before, but the mouse and keyboard are still going to be here for a long while. Various third-party applications can be used to tweak functionality of input peripheral devices to your liking. For instance, Easy Scroller lets you use page buttons to replace your broken mouse scroll wheel.

On the one hand, the application saves you the whole effort of going through a setup process. This means you can carry it around on a USB flash drive along with other tools you need to use on other computers besides your own. Don’t worry about the health status of the target PC, because registry entries are not modified, nor any traces left.

The application spends most of its time hidden in the tray area. All controls you need can easily be found and accessed from the corresponding tray menu. In fact, the program doesn’t even come with a window of its own, thus minimizing your effort to a minimum, and saves some time as well.

The process is activated as soon as the program starts. You can clearly view this from the icon, which changes when the state is toggled off. On the bright side of things, toggling the activation state is easily done through the preset hotkey configuration.

When active, you can use the page up and page down buttons on your keyboard to scroll through content just like you do with a mouse wheel. It moves pretty smooth, and you’re sure not to jump over anything of interest. The only downside to the entire operation is the lack of option to configure sensitivity.

In conclusion, Easy Scroller is sure to come in handy if your mouse wheel suddenly fails, and you’re not really in a position to purchase a new one. Adding a shortcut to the system startup folder makes it run with Windows, and is active as soon as it starts, deserving at least a try overall.

You may be surprised to realize how productive you are when resorting to your innate skills, and not your acquired capabilities. Still, people may have different views on instinctive behavior, and what one sees as natural, another could consider atypical.

To get a better idea of what such a situation implies, you can think of the mouse scrolling direction. You may have noticed that, in Windows, by default, your mouse wheel and the web page your are scrolling up or down move in opposite directions. So in order to scroll down, you actually need to flick up on your mouse.

Fortunately, there is a software utility that can prove of great help if you don’t find this behavior natural. It is dubbed Flip Mouse Wheel, and as said, it provides you with full control of the scrolling direction.

You simply need to double-click its executable in order to be prompted with a window showing all the devices you want to affect. Clicking the “Show All” button should display a list of all available mouse devices.

It is important to mention that, for each of them, you can reverse the scroll direction, both for vertical and horizontal movements.

So, if you deem that comfortable, you cam mimic the Mac OS scrolling direction, which means your mouse wheel and the website you are visiting will move in sync, as if using a touch device.

Note that turning back to your initial settings is one click away, with the “All Normal” button being close at hand for this type of scenario. On the other hand, flipping all devices can be done as well in order to save time.

Regardless of your choice, you need to know that you need to remove your USB mouse then plug it once more for the changes to show.

On an ending note, Flip Mouse Wheel is a lightweight application that tweaks your OS’ behavior so that its scrolling direction is reversed. Your mouse wheel will change behavior for both vertical and horizontal scrolling, with the mention that reverting to defaults can be easily done as well, which once again shows the app is easy to interact with and requires little user input.

This article provides assistance with virtual scrolling (horizontal scrolling, vertical scrolling, multi-finger scrolling) settings on ideapad laptops configured with Synaptics, ALPS, or Elan touchpad running Windows 7/8.1. Before adjusting Device Settings via Control Panel > Mouse (on Windows 8.1, open Devices > Mouse & Touchpad > click Additional mouse options under Related settings), make sure the touchpad driver installed on the PC is the latest. If not, go to the support site to download and install.

Is your mouse broken, or did you just forget it? Or maybe you are having USB driver problems, and your mouse isn’t working. With Mouse Emulator, you can still use your computer.

Yust run the program, and it will show you which keys you have to press to move the mouse cursor. For more information, check the readme or read the manual on this page.

This program is also very usefull for laptop owners with low quality mouses. Just hold down the Fn key, and you can use the numeric keypad in the center of your keyboard to move the mouse!

Mouse Emulator can also toggle mouse buttons with a simple key press. This is very useful for RSI users that have problems with drag operations with the mouse.