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Under the “Buttons” tab check off “ClickLock”. Within the Mouse Properties there are a handful of little tweaks that really improve both trackpad and mouse functionality on laptops. That will pop up the Mouse Properties menu (which has a distinctly old school Windows look compared to the updated UI we were just using). At the bottom of the settings menu seen in the previous section, click on the “Additional mouse options” in the “Related settings” section at the bottom of the window.
#Holding a mouse in closed hands windows 10#
The following tweaks aren’t new to Windows 10 but they’re often overlooked by mobile users. While we’re in the mouse settings, there are a few extra tweaks worth looking at. Because we’ve been traumatized by years of bad touchpad integration and cursors skipping all over the place, we have our laptops set to “Long delay”. Inside the settings menu you’ll find entries to tweak mouse buttons, scroll speed, scrolling when hovering over inactive windows (a really great feature we used to, back in the day, use a third-party utility for), and the entry we’re really looking for: the touchpad delay.īy default it is set to “Medium delay” but you can turn it off, shorten the delay, or lengthen the delay.