Customizing your mouse settings in the Windows control panel is straightforward and easy. Here are the steps you can follow to customize your mouse in the Windows control panel:
1. Open the Control Panel in Windows. To do this, click on the Start button in the lower left corner of your screen and type ‘Control Panel’ into the search bar and select it from the search results.
2. Once the Control Panel window is open, click on the “Hardware and Sound” option.
3. Next, click on the “Mouse” link under the “Devices and Printers” section.
4. You will now see the Mouse Properties window. This window contains several tabs along the top that allow you to customize virtually all aspects of your mouse.
5. The first tab is the “Buttons” tab, which allows you to change the number of buttons on your mouse, as well as customize their functions. There are some preset functions such as ‘Copy’ and ‘Paste’ that you can select, or you can customize and assign specific commands to each button.
6. The “Pointer Options” tab is where you can customize the speed and sensitivity of your mouse pointer. As well as being able to increase or decrease the speed of the pointer, you can also enable options such as ‘Snap To’ which makes the mouse pointer jump to items on the screen when you are hovering over them with the mouse.
7. The “Wheel” tab allows you to set up scrolling options for the mouse wheel, if you have a wheel mouse. Here you can enable vertical, horizontal and tilt wheel scrolling, as well as adjust the speed at which the mouse wheel scrolls.
8. The last tab is the “Hardware” tab which displays information about the mouse device and allows you to update the drivers for the device if necessary.
Once you have made the changes to your mouse settings in the Control Panel, be sure to click “OK” to save your changes and then click “Apply” to apply them. Your mouse should now be customized to your preferences.