Reverse Left And Right Mouse Buttons With One Click

Reverse Left And Right Mouse Buttons With One Click

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If you’re left-handed, you can interchange the actions of the left and right mouse buttons — that is, you can tell Windows 7 that it should treat the left mouse button as though it were the right button and treat the right button as though it were the left. The swap comes in handy for some left-handers, but most southpaws I know (including my son) prefer to keep the buttons as is because it’s easier to use other computers if your fingers are trained for the standard setting.

The Windows ClickLock feature can come in handy if you have trouble holding down the left mouse button and moving the mouse at the same time — a common problem for notebook users who have fewer than three hands. When Windows uses ClickLock, you hold down the mouse button for a while (you can tell Windows exactly how long) and Windows locks the mouse button so that you can concentrate on moving the mouse without having to hold down the button.

Screenshot On How To Reverse the left and right mouse buttons with one click.

To switch left and right mouse buttons or turn on ClickLock, follow these steps:

• Click Start. Immediately type mouse and press Enter. Then Windows opens the Mouse Properties dialog box, as shown in the above screen shot.
• If you want to switch the functions of the left and right mouse buttons, select the Switch Primary and Secondary Buttons check box.
• If you want to turn on ClickLock, check the Turn On ClickLock box and immediately click the Settings button. You can then adjust the length of time you need to hold down the mouse button for ClickLock to kick in.
• Click OK.

Note that, the changes take place immediately.

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Choosing Between Single Click and Double Click To Open Files And Folders In Windows

Choosing Between Single Click and Double Click To Open Files And Folders In Windows

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You can choose how icons on the Windows desktop and in Explorer windows behave as you could in Windows Me, 98 Second Edition, and XP. Your choices are

• Single-click (Web style) To select the icon without running or opening it, move your mouse pointer to the icon without clicking, and wait a second. To run or open the icon, click it once. Icon labels appear underlined (like web page links).

• Double-click (Classic Windows style) To select the icon, click it once. To run or open the icon, click it twice. Icon labels are not underlined.

Follow these steps to choose between single-click and double-click:

1. Choose Start | Control Panel. Click the (Appearance And Personalization category For Windows Vista) or Folder Options In Windows 7.

For Windows XP, Click On My Computer – Tools – Folder Options.

2. Click the Folder Options icon. You see the Folder Options dialog box, shown in Figure below. If the General tab isn’t selected, click it.

Whether you use single-click or double-click, you can right-click icons to see a shortcut menu of commands you can perform on the icon

The General tab of the Folder Options dialog box, where you can specify how Windows
icons work.

3. In the Click Items As Follows area, click either the Single-click or Double-click radio button. If you choose Single-click, choose whether you want icon titles to be underlined all the time (Consistent With My Browser) or only when your mouse pointer is on the icon (Only When I Point At Them).

4. Click OK.

That’s it. This is how you can Choosing Between Single Click and Double Click To Open Files And Folders In Windows

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Control Two Computers With a Single Keyboard and Mouse

Control Two Computers With a Single Keyboard and Mouse

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Let’s say you have two computers on your desk and, in an effort to save space, you want to operate them all using a single pair of keyboard and mouse.

There are two solutions here. If the computers are connected to the same network, you can use software programs like Input Director or Synergy to operate them with a common keyboard and mouse. In the other scenario where the machines aren’t connected, you can get a KVM switch to share one keyboard and mouse between them.

One of the better alternative is to go for Mouse without Borders. My work setup is quite similar to what you see in the illustration above and I have been using the Input Director software all this while to control the two Windows PCs with one keyboard and mouse. Input Director is reliable and (mostly) works without problems though it does require some understanding of the Master and Slave concept.

And alternatively, Mouse without Borders will see things even better and easy than the previous solutions.

The best part about Mouse without Borders is how easy it is to set up. You install the utility on all your Windows computers, enter the security code provided by the software and your computers will get linked. This is almost as simple as pairing a set of Bluetooth devices.

Step by Step Instructions On Installing and Configuring Mouse without Borders:

Step 1 of Installing Mouse without Borders:

Step 2 Installing Mouse without Borders:

Step 3 Installing Mouse without Borders:

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Once installed, you can not only use the same keyboard and mouse across your computers in a seamless manner but you can also drag and drop files between them. This is so convenient. Earlier, I had to create shared network folders or had to use Dropbox to transfer files but now I can simple drag them from desktop A to desktop B as if they were on the same computer.

With the Mouse without Borders utility installed, you can also send screen capture of one desktop to another by pressing a hotkey or from the system tray menu. After having used the tool for about a week, I never experienced a crash though I did have problems sharing clipboard especially when the copy operation was done inside a Flash application.

Mouse without Borders can only be used to control Windows based computers. If your work environment involves a mix of Windows, Linux or Mac computers, Synergy could still be the only good choice for you.

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Using Scroll Bar To Navigate Around Documents And Pages

Using Scroll Bar To Navigate Around Documents And Pages

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Scrolling: These days, PC monitors are bigger than ever—but so are the Web pages and documents they display. Scroll bars, of course, are the strips that may appear at the right side and/or bottom of a window. The scroll bar signals you that the window isn’t big enough to reveal all of its contents.

Click the arrows at each end of a scroll bar to move slowly through the window, or drag the rectangular handle (the thumb) to move faster. (The position of the thumb in the scroll bar reflects your relative position in the entire window or document.) You can quickly move to a specific part of the window by holding the mouse button down on the scroll bar where you want the thumb to be. The scroll bar rapidly scrolls to the desired location and then stops. 

Scrolling is such a frequently needed skill, though, that all kinds of other scrolling gadgets have cropped up. Your mouse probably has a little wheel on the top. You can scroll in most programs just by turning the wheel with your finger, even if your cursor is nowhere near the scroll bar. You can turbo-scroll by dragging the mouse upward or downward while keeping the wheel pressed down inside the window.

Laptops often have some kind of scrolling gizmo, too. Maybe you have an actual roller, or maybe the trackpad offers draghere to-scroll strips on the right side and across the bottom. And if you have one of the new breed of touchscreen computers, of course, you can scroll just by dragging around with a finger (or two fingers, on multitouch screens).

Of course, keyboard addicts should note that you can scroll without using the mouse at all. Press the Page Up or Page Down keys to scroll the window by one window-full, or use the arrow keys (Up / Down) keys to scroll one line at a time.

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