How to Change Your Mouse Settings

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Michael Burton, with michaelburtonfilms.org, located in Salt Lake City, Utah, we're here talking about, how to use Microsoft Windows. Now what I want to talk to you about is, how to change the mouse settings on your computer. Let me start out by saying, that Windows XP is a registered trademark of Microsoft, and I am in no way affiliated with Microsoft. To change the mouse settings on your computer is really simple. First you want to start by going down on the bottom left hand corner of the screen, to the start menu, we're going to bring this up. What we want to open is our control panel, which is over here on the right hand side. So if you move up, this opens your control panel window. Now if you look up at the upper right hand corner, you're going to see a link called, printer and other hardware, this is going to be the link that you're going to want to click, so go ahead and click that. It brings up a number of task that you can work on. You got your game controllers, keyboard, mouse, phones, modems, scanners, stuff like that. So obviously, here's the link that we want for the mouse. So it opens up your mouse properties window. And automatically from the get go you can see that you have some button configurations, click speeds, things like that. Your button configuration, you can switch from your primary to your secondary buttons by clicking this button. And what it does, it changes which one is your primary button, and which one is your secondary. So instead of using your left button all the time, if you were to click, check this, it will automatically become your right button, so they basically switch places. That's good if you're left handed, and you want to use your mouse with your left hand, it will reverse it for you. Here's your double click speed, depending on how fast you want to be able to open up folders and view files, right now we kind of got it sort of in the middle, I tend to click a little bit fast, so that works perfect for me. A couple of other options, if you go up here, there's a couple of tabs up here, you've got your pointers, this is different types of pointers you can select. It shows you the different ones, you have the arrow, you have the arrow with the question mark, you have the arrow with an hour glass, also you have the pointer options up here at the top. Now I- you can select your pointer speed, which I have it selected at fast, because I like my mouse to be able to move super fast, I hate my mouse to move really slow. Again, you can have them snap to different objects, your visibility, you can actually have a trail of arrows behind your arrows as you move, lots of different options here. If you go up to the next tab, it's wheel, you can actually change the settings on the actual scroll wheel, to see how many lines that a wheel will scroll every turn that you make, you can also select it, choose it to do one screen at a time, which I do not. Thats pretty much it. On your hardware, is where different devices will appear if you happen to install a number of different mouses, or like a mouse with a wheel, and a mouse like with a ball, both of them would appear here, under devices, and you can go in and change the properties on each of those individually as well."