How To Change Mouse Settings In Windows 10?

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Windows 10 gives us a range of versatile options for your mouse, so you have options to choose how your cursor behaves. In Windows 10, mouse settings are split into Control Panel and the Settings app

In this article, we’ll see the available settings and the effect they have on your pointer.

How To Change Mouse To Left-Handed Windows 10?

Table of Contents

Let us now discuss how to change mouse settings in detail.

1) Reassign Mouse Buttons From Settings

To Reassign mouse buttons from settings. Follow the steps:

Click on the Windows Start button and select Settings.
Click on Devices and then select Mouse.

Under Mouse select your primary button to the Left.

In this menu you can also re-design the Cursor Speed by moving the Slider. Moving it to right increases speed and to left decreases the speed.

The Switch Mouse Keys options can change from the Control Panel also. Here are the Steps.

Type Control Panel on the Start menu and select the first option.

After the window opens, change the View By to Large or Small icons.
Click on Mouse to open the Mouse Properties.
Select Buttons tab and then click the Left-Handed checkbox to change the Primary click.

Click on Apply and OK to save the changes.

In the Buttons Tab you can find an option named Double Click Speed where you re-design the speed of double click to open a folder in Windows 10.

2) Change The Mouse Wheel Settings:

In the Settings Window there are others options also which can Change Mouse Settings on Windows 10, here are the Steps

Click on Start.

Select the Gear icon on the lower left corner of the Start menu. This will open the Settings window.
Click on Devices and then go to Mouse.
Move the ‘Choose how many lines to scroll each time’ slider to change how many lines one roll of the mouse wheel scrolls.

You can find Wheel settings from the Control Panel. To know how to change mouse settings from Control Panel, follow the steps given below:

Type Control Panel in the Start menu and select the first option.

After the control panel opens, change the View By to Large or Small icons.
Click on Mouse to open the Mouse Properties.
Then jump to the Wheel tab.

Here you will find two options, Vertical Scrolling and Horizontal Scrolling. Change the one you want.
Click on Apply then OK to save the changes.

Now we discussed about the others Mouse Settings which you can Change In Windows 10.

3) Tweak Pointer Settings

You can find this option in mouse properties on control panel. In this option you can change the appearance of the mouse.

You can also enable the pointer shadow option on clicking the said checkbox. Select it, then click on Apply and OK.

4) Pointer Options

In this tab, you can re-design the mouse from options such as Motion, Snap To, Visibility, etc.

You can change the Pointer Speed by dragging the slider from center to either left or right.

Snap To option automatically moves the cursor to default option.

Visibility option gives the cursor mouse trails and you can control the trail from short to long by changing the slider.

You can hide the pointer while typing, by clicking the respective check box.

The last option locates your mouse pointer when you press CTRL.

Select what you want to re-design, then click on Apply and OK.

Conclusion

So here you go! Now you know how to change mouse settings on Windows 10.

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