If you use a laptop or a desktop PC, there is a high chance that you rely on your mouse or on your touchpad to use it. Working with Windows 10 implies the use of one of these devices. You can also connect a Bluetooth mouse to your tablet if that makes it easier for you to work on it. Therefore, if you want to be more productive, it is essential to configure your mouse just the way you like it. Whether you want to change what its buttons do, or change your mouse sensitivity to be higher or lower, read this tutorial and find out how to do it in Windows 10:
NOTE: The settings illustrated in this article cover most accessories, but some more advanced mice and touchpads have specialized drivers with additional options. To configure those settings, you have to refer to the user manual of your specific pointing device.
How to access the basic mouse settings in Windows 10
To configure the essential features of your mouse or your touchpad, you have to open the Settings app. To do so, click or tap on its button from the Start Menu or press Windows + I on your keyboard. Then, in the Settings app, access Devices.
The Devices category from the Settings app
On the left side of the window, select "Mouse" to access the mouse configuration settings.
The Mouse section from the Devices category of settings
How to reassign mouse buttons and set the left-click button
The first setting, "Select your primary button," sets the button allocation. Click or tap to open the list of options and choose between having your left or right mouse button set as primary. The default setting is left, but you might want to change it to the right if you are left-handed.
Reassigning mouse buttons
Yes, reassigning mouse buttons is as simple as that. 🙂
How to change the mouse wheel scrolling options
The second option configures how scrolling with the mouse wheel works. Click to choose one of the available options: scroll "Multiple lines at a time" or scroll "One screen at a time." The first is the default setting, which makes scrolling smoother and slower while selecting the second one makes the mouse wheel scroll a whole screen of content at a time. The easiest way to see how these scrolling options work is to open a website, like Digital Citizen, and check which scrolling method you prefer.
Changing how the mouse wheel scrolls: multiple lines or one screen at a time
If you choose to scroll "Multiple lines at a time," you can use the scrollbar below the setting to set how many lines to scroll at a time. Click or tap and drag the cursor to the left or to the right to decrease or increase the number of lines. The default setting is 3.
Choosing how many lines the mouse wheel scrolls
Next, you can set the scroll behavior regarding inactive windows, or windows in the background. If "Scroll inactive windows when I hover over them" is set to On, when you move the mouse cursor over an inactive window, you can scroll it without having to focus on it. If it is turned off, you first have to click on inactive windows before scrolling their contents. The default setting is On.
Making the mouse wheel scroll when you hover over an inactive window
How to change the mouse pointer size and color in Windows 10
In the Related settings area, you get two links: "Adjust mouse & cursor size" and "Additional mouse options." The first one opens a new page in the Settings app, that's filled with various mouse-related settings and options. There, you can change the mouse pointer size, as well as the mouse cursor colors. This feature deserves a separate tutorial, which we already published and which you can read if you follow this link: How to change the mouse pointer size and color in Windows 10.
Adjust mouse and cursor size
How to change the more advanced mouse properties
If you want to explore additional mouse settings, click or tap the "Additional mouse options" link in the Mouse settings window, under the Related settings section.
Additional mouse options
The Mouse Properties window opens up with its first tab, Buttons, active.
The Buttons tab from the Mouse Properties window
How to reassign mouse buttons, from the "Mouse Properties" window
The first thing you can do is change the primary mouse button, the same setting you had in the Mouse settings window. Here, you do not choose the primary button, but switch them by ticking the "Switch primary and secondary buttons" box.
The picture of a mouse on the right shows which button is currently the primary (colored in blue).
Reassign left and right-click mouse buttons
Although this is a roundabout way to reassign mouse buttons, you might prefer it if you are accustomed to older Windows operating systems.
How to set the mouse double-click speed
You can also set the "Double-click speed": this sets how fast you have to press the primary mouse button two times to have it considered a double-click. Slower mouse users might want to lower this speed. You can test the selected option on the folder icon on the right.
Adjust the mouse double-click speed
What is ClickLock and how to turn it on
ClickLock is the last setting on the Buttons tab. You can turn it on by ticking the "Turn on ClickLock" box.
Enable or disable ClickLock
When ClickLock is on, it can replace clicking and dragging: click and hold your primary mouse button (usually the left button for right-handed people) briefly, then release it. This "locks" the click, and your mouse button is considered pressed until you click it again. Press the Settings button to configure ClickLock length.
The ClickLock settings buttons
Here you can set how long you need to hold down the mouse button before the click is "locked." Drag the bar left or right to decrease or increase the required time. Apply the setting with a click or tap on OK.
Adjusting the ClickLock settings
How to change the mouse cursor appearance
To access pointer options, click or tap the Pointers tab on the top of the Mouse Properties window.
To be able to make changes to the mouse sensitivity in Windows 10, you have to go to the "Pointer Options" tab from the Mouse Properties window.
The Pointer Options from the Mouse Properties window
Here you can set the mouse sensitivity or, in simpler words, set how fast your mouse pointer moves on the screen by clicking or tapping and dragging the "Select a pointer speed" bar. Move it to the left or right to decrease or increase pointer speed.
Adjusting the mouse pointer speed
NOTE: This is the only standard way to do any mouse calibration in Windows 10. However, some mice come with specialized software from their manufacturers, which allows you to do more advanced mouse calibration.
Ticking the "Enhance pointer precision" option makes mouse clicks more precise, so you should probably leave this box checked, especially if your mouse is not that great.
Choosing to enhance the mouse pointer precision
How to change other pointer options (such as snap it to the default button in dialog boxes or display pointer trails)
If you enable the "Snap To" setting, you can make your mouse pointer automatically move to the default button (like OK, Yes, Save, etc.) in dialog boxes.
Setting the Snap To option on or off
If you check the "Display pointer trails" box, the mouse pointer is going to be followed by a trail of additional pointers. The cursor trails can make it more comfortable to follow the mouse on low-light screens. Move the bar to the left or right to decrease or increase the trail's length.
Display pointer trails
Check the "Hide pointer while typing" if you want the mouse cursor to disappear when you type long texts in a word processor or email software. Theoretically, that makes the text you type more comfortable to read.
Hide pointer while typing
The "Show location of pointer when I press the CTRL key" option can be useful when using low-light monitors. It makes the CTRL key mark the mouse pointer's location with animated, radar-like circles.
Show location of pointer when pressing the CTRL key
How to change the mouse wheel vertical and horizontal scrolling options
To customize mouse wheel options, click or tap the Wheel tab of the Mouse Properties window.
The Wheel tab from the Mouse Properties window
The "Vertical Scrolling" options are the same as the ones in the Mouse settings page from the Settings app. You can choose how much content you scroll at a time, and set the number of lines if you select the first option.
Adjusting the Vertical Scrolling mouse settings
Under Horizontal Scrolling, you can set how many characters to scroll horizontally when you tilt the mouse wheel. Note that this does not work on every kind of mouse: you need one that supports horizontal scrolling.
Adjusting the Horizontal Scrolling mouse settings
How to view mouse hardware information
To see your mouse hardware options, click or tap the Hardware tab of the Mouse Properties window.
Checking the hardware details of the mouse
Here you can see all the mice and touchpads connected to your computer, their manufacturer, what port they are plugged in, and if the devices are working correctly. Usually, there is no need to access this page, and the hardware properties are meant to be used only by advanced users.
How to configure a mouse that has more than two buttons
One of our readers asked how to configure a mouse that has more than two buttons. Unfortunately, the answer to this question is that you cannot set the additional buttons found on your mouse, using solely Windows 10. If you have such a mouse, you can configure what the extra buttons do only by using a software application offered by your mouse's manufacturer. You usually get the right software for your mouse together with its drivers, on the CD/DVD that came with it, or from the mouse's manufacturer website. Here is a list of the software used by some of the most popular mice:
Did you manage to configure and calibrate your mouse as you wanted?
In Windows 10, you can configure almost every detail of how your mouse works, with the notable exception of what the extra buttons on a mouse do, when you have a mouse with more than two buttons on it. However, compared to previous Windows versions, Windows 10 offers simplified access to the Settings app, where you can modify basic mouse settings. At the same time, you can access the more detailed Mouse Properties window, with more options and an interface familiar to users of previous Windows versions. If you have any questions regarding mouse settings, please let us know in the comments below.
Excellent resource! Very detailed and easy to follow.
But it’s all for naught, because every time a win10 computer restarts, or updates, all the mouse setting change back to some default.
None of the fixes online work.
Microsoft needs to get its fucking act together!
Tragicmouse ·
I want to say a HUGE thank you for this. Spent about two weeks trying to figure out why I couldn’t pause a video and this was the solution. Stupidly I even reinstalled Windows to no avail. Seems the mouse settings were what I needed to fix. Googled everything and just found this.
Thanks!!!!!
Anonymous ·
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Mike ·
Can’t seem to find any info anywhere about how the horizontal scrolling should work and how to set it. Devices > Mouse Properties > Horizontal Scrolling only shows the “number of characters,” but I don’t see where to change the wheel from Forward/Back to horizontal scrolling.
: (
Jan Oge ·
How do you turn off the volume control with the scroll wheel. The DPI button does nothing. This is getting really annoying. I suddenly miss Windows 7.
kishor ·
It’s really useful thank you
Mike ·
Thank You. Your info helped me greatly as I am NOT tech smart.
Shaun ·
Windows 10, Microsoft mouse: I like using the wheel to “roll and scroll”. But I inevitably and unintentionally press the wheel downward, which enables “move mouse up or down to scroll”, and disables “roll and scroll”. I want to completely disable that “move mouse up or down to scroll” feature, but don’t know how to do it. Any ideas?
Anothuor ·
I want both of my click buttons to be left click, and change my scroll button to right click. Is there any way to do this on windows 10?
Ray Kline ·
Yes, they fixed it up real nice, now the wheel can only be used to enlarge (temp as always) the picture if I press he control button simultaneously. Again making nice simple things more complicated.
gail zivin ·
How decrease mouse sensitivity? stop hover action?
Anonymous ·
Read the “How to change the mouse sensitivity” section from this guide.
jp blanchette ·
in bionic manager my mouse scrolls the page horizontally.
right side scroll bar is missing.
Gerardo ·
Really good article with very detailed explanations, thanks!
However, I’m still unclear how do you configure a mouse that has more than 2 buttons?
Anonymous ·
Thank you! We will update this article soon and hopefully we’ll answer your question. In short, you cannot configure the extra buttons directly from Windows 10’s settings. You can do it with the software offered by your mouse’s manufacturer, or with a third-party app such as X-Mouse Button Control.
rick ·
How do I change from 2-click to 1-click for selections in Windows 10?
Why do you say that? What information were you looking for? Maybe I can help?
Roger ·
You can configure every detail and the wheel still does not work in settings.
G ·
I beg to differ- in Windows 10, you cannot configure every little detail of how your mouse works.
Feel free, somebody, to show me where in Windows 10 I can now alter the behaviour of the middle-click- for instance to turn it back into a middle-click instead of emulating the Windows key on this P.O.S Lenovo rubbish I’ve been landed with.
Codrut Neagu ·
I’m late with a comment, but you’re right. Maybe a third-party app like X-Mouse Button Control can help you?
Cookie LaHa ·
helpful article but not for me. I just want a BIGGER cursor – hard to find sometimes on the screen because it is so small. You use to be able to customize your cursor, but not anymore. I do not like this feature on Windows 10
andy ·
Hi, I want to know how I can change the speed to blink of my cursor.
Thank you!
Codrut Neagu ·
Unfortunately, you cannot do that in Windows 10. 🙁
Adahy ·
This doesn’t show me how to do what I did in Windows 7 that I really want in 10: how to set the mouse to open icons with a single click instead of a double.
i up grades to windos 1 its nice but some times my pointer roles the page to the bottom and wont work for a couple seconds than is eratic i fight with it and win but it slows me down a lot i tryed looking at setings and nothing seemed right any ideas?
Codrut Neagu ·
I’m not really sure about what you’re trying to say, but have you considered a broken USB port, or maybe even a broken mouse?
Jay ·
My mouse has three buttons and a scroll wheel. Because my left click is kinda touchy I changed my right to primary, that’s fine. My side button functioned as a ‘back’ button, I normally have it as the ‘right-click’ but windows ten won’t let me change it’s function but will still use it as a back button.
Joe ·
I like Win10 over Win8 in that it now resembles a desktop again and not a tablet OS. However there are a few things that are frustrating about it, such as lack of privacy, subscription software (more of an MS gripe), removing popular tools like Media Player and the one thing that fries my eggs… when I click the back button on my mouse, it closes everything to show the desktop, instead of performing the back button function in the browser. Microsoft is messing around too much with the little things that made our user experience smother, easier and more practical.
Susan Carter ·
cant get my mouse to work. Went to settings, device etc and look at my settings for mouse and all looks ok but when I click ok or apply nothing happens. please advise since this happened after the download of windows 10. thanks lots.
Syd ·
I’m using a Toshiba Satellite C675 and once I upgraded to Windows 10 and reconfigured the mouse and touchpad appropriately, the mouse does not work for drop-down menus and scrolls down uncontrollably in some applications (spreadsheets and media player) and windows (computer list of files and folders). Have tried every suggestion with no success. When I remove the USB mouse, I am able to control the scrolling and make selections from a drop-down menu. It is very inconvenient and I’m hoping for a fix soon!
Carmen ·
just upgraded to window 10
but i cant scroll the page by using touchpad now as before!!
mark ·
I can’t get the mouse (actually trackpoint) buttons to switch and stay switched; or be switched consistently (sometimes it won’t be switched on Internet/Chrome). I HATE MICROSOFT and never wanted Windows 10. Can I go back to Windows 7? Will never buy anything from Microsoft; can’t stand them.
Greg C ·
Can NOT scroll using mouse wheel after installing Win 10. It worked just fine before. Tried changing settings, and always hit “Apply” and “Ok”, but it still does NOT scroll. I HATE having to to go side of pages to scroll.
Deborah J Brown ·
Okay… it looks like plenty of people are having significant trouble with mice and touchpads – myself included – and I don’t see Microsoft posting any answers. The normal “fix” does not work for any of us… so what now? In order to get any functioning whatsoever I had to switch left/right mouse button but have no features normally on the right button – no copy and paste, can’t create shortcuts, change icons or anything. I could use it this way but it’s ridiculous to have to do that. Besides, this is a family laptop and not everyone is computer saavy enough to use keys to get to Control Panel when it automatically switches right/left buttons and nothing, including the keyboard, actually works.
Clint ·
Has anyone figured out a solution to this. My zoom feature on touchpad is out of control and it never fails I forget to change the settings at start up and accidentally zoom to unreal, unrealistic levels.
Chris ·
Thank you so much for this post!
Joe ·
I am having the same problem as reported above – after the 10 upgrade, after I go in and configure the Touchpad, all the settings revert to default upon the next start up. It is Synaptics. Any suggestions on how to fix?
Sue ·
Help! I upgraded to Windows 10 and lost the use of my touchpad. I was finally able to use a mouse to download a touchpad driver to get the touchpad to partially work. My problem is the right click button on my touchpad won’t allow me to copy and paste anything. I can now highlight text with the left button (thanks to the tip to uncheck “clicklock”) but when I right click to copy and paste that text, it simply unhighlights it. How can I restore the right click function? I now have the option to “Roll back the driver” but I’m afraid to apply that because I finally got the touch pad partially working and don’t want it to rollback to Windows 10 when it wasn’t working as that option wasn’t even displayed when I first uploaded Windows 10. This has been incredibly frustrating. The Toshiba site identifies my laptop as being compatible with Windows 10. Thanks for any help you can provide.
Jeffery ·
I just bought a new ASUS for school that came preloaded with 7, but with the option to upgrade to 10. Before the upgrade, I could scroll by dragging two fingers across the touchpad. The update appears to have removed that option, and the settings do not appear to have a way to make this happen.
I appreciate the link with the advice. There is a lot of great information but unfortunately there isn’t anything on the page that relates to my issue. I cannot find a setting that allows me to use the touchpad to scroll. The touchpad scrolled before the upgrade to 10 but now it does not.
Kat ·
I have a Lenovo and ever since I upgraded to windows 10 my touch pad does not work. It only works with a mouse which I do not want to use.
Dee ·
Please if anyone can help. I have a Toshiba, I up graded to windows 10 and my touch pad stopped working. Ive managed to get the curser on the screen again and moving but my touch pad buttons are still not working, and I don’t own a mouse.
Natasha ·
The “Additional mouse option” isn’t an option for me. It is light grey and I cannot even select it. My touchpad doesn’t work after about 30secs of windows being open. Is there any way to fix this. I’m on husbands laptop who will be heading back to work tomorrow so if anyone can help asap I’d really appreciate it.
Lydia ·
I am just checking but have you connected a mouse to the computer to select the options? And what make is the laptop?
amalia ·
mouse buttons and touchpad buttons are not linked… hence left-handed mouse and right-handed touchpad… anyone knows how to solve this?
Lydia ·
Have now fixed the problem.
Go to settings, devices, mouse&touchpad, additional settings, ELAN, enable the touchpad, click apply (with mouse or touchscreen not touchpad) , hardware, double click touchpad in options list, change settings, driver, roll back driver, click okay and restart your computer. Hope this is clear enough.
Lydia ·
Just updated to windows 10 and cannot use my touchpad isn’t functional. The pointer does not appear on the screen. I had a similar problem as this once before when upgrading to windows 8.1 but this time I am unable to fix it.
Julia ·
HELP!! After upgrading to Windows 10, my mouse wont work as a mouse… If i click the left OR right buttons on my touchpad, the mouse scrolls. I can no longer use the mouse to select, resize, drag and drop, or any functions that I find to be normal. It’s so frustrating. Any idea how I can fix this problem?
John Slatts ·
How do I stop my touchpad zooming in and out on windows 10
Hattie ·
So the way i finally got back to my old system was getting to settings, selecting whichever folder has backup, update, or recovery. I dont remember which thing its under from there (in case you cant tell i blissfully found my way back already) but one of them (i think under recovery) has a separate button for going back to your old operating system. But hurry. It says the option is only available for a month after the upgrade. This is will keep it from restarting all way back to your very first system. You have to be plugged in and they ask why youre leaving but then after a fairly quick update youre home free.
Jim Bob ·
I have the SAME problem. I just updated and now I can’t use my mouse much even after reactivating some options! I’ve tried restarting and again have to tick off mouse options. Most of the options I need are already ticked off so I don’t understand why I can’t use my mouse normally. I’m pissed off as this has rendered my laptop unusable at the speeds I need for university and life!
Jim Bob ·
Figured it out! I have a Toshiba so I went to their support site and downloaded the latest Elan Touchpad and now I’m back to normal. Well, I only restarted once so we’ll see after a couple more restarts I suppose!
Renee ·
Updating to windows 10 is the wrost. I haven’t been able to use my computer in 2 weeks. So frustrating I’ve tried all above methods nothing seems to work. How do I reset upgrade. Where is this located—>Open up regedit.exe
RayL ·
This works 🙂
Open up regedit.exe
Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARESynapticsSynTPInstall
Note this is LOCAL MACHINE, not CURRENT USER.
Look for a key in that Install folder called DeleteUserSettingsOnUpgrade
Double click and change the value to 0
Sellenberger ·
I have no SynapticsSynTPInstall on my computer I get as far as HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARE and that’s where it ends. Any suggestions
Hattie ·
Im really irritated with the new update. I have a Asus and like an idiot decided to let it upgrade to windows 10 the night before the first day of school. I let it update over night so when i woke up this morning and tried to operate it i was sorely confused. Beyond the odd new layout and the weird set up was the fact my mouse didnt work. I could move it at the log in screen but once i got to my account it wouldnt even show up. I looked through several help sites until i finally found one that showed me how to turn it back on. I was crazy happy to be able to move my mouse again, but its useless considering the fact it wont click on anything. I cant find anything that tells me how to fix it. I wish i had never bothered with the update.
Simlyn ·
I think the rollback drivers for the mouse under device manager is the best solution. I have an Asus too and I did roll back my drivers and i can use my mouse again. Go the device manager, look for the drivers for mouse, click properties, drivers and you will see the option that says roll back drivers. Click on it and let it ask you to restart your pc. Do just that and the mouse function should come back on.
Brittany ·
I also have an Asus and did as you said to fix my touchpad and mouse control but now every time I close my laptop when I open it back up there are Google Chrome windows opened with like 50 tabs opened in them, have you had this problem?
Jeanne ·
I also have a Toshiba laptop, upgraded to Win 10 and lost function of mouse. I can tab to control center and activate the trackpad (EACH TIME I TURN ON THE PC) but the buttons do not work……what is interesting, everything works fine until I put in my password and Windows opens up. I left the PC world for Mac a long time ago because of stuff like this….please help.
Fred teubert ·
I have walked many through and it’s worked every time. Call me at 608 350 6955 I can help.
ed ·
Anyone know how to make the twin touch on a touchpad turn into scroll up/down? It acts as a right click now instead of a scroll. It is currently killing my life
ginger ·
i upgraded from windows 8 to 10 and 2 days later my cursor will not stop blinking. how can i stop this it is driving me crazy.
Connie ·
I cannot click on anything without a working mouse keypad. I have no plug in mouse. I am using a borrowed pc.
michael ·
Ok so I have a Toshiba laptop, updated It to windows 10 and I changed the setting where It makes a delay with your mouse when you press a keyboard button but It doesn’t go away and it stays the same even though I changed the setting to no delay (always on).
Jeff ·
I have an Asus G751 laptop and when I set the mouse to be left handed, the touch pad tap becomes a secondary click action instead of remaining a primary button action. Is there a way to flip the buttons but leave the touch pad tap to behave normally as Windows 7 used to do?
Mark ·
I have same problem with settings going back to default at every start up, very annoying. Need a solution
Fred teubert ·
You have to go through the device manager and roll back the touchpad driver and it will work fine.
Vishal ·
Above same mouse scroll problem with me after upgrading to windows 10.
Marlo ·
the mouse scroll function won’t work with this upgrade. once i shut down the computer and then turn it back on, all of the settings revert back to the original. it does not save any settings. DO NOT LIKE WINDOWS 10.
WORST UPDATE EVER!!!!!
rory ·
So how do i change what the ‘mouse scroll’ button does? it’s a Microsoft mouse and you’ve made the mouse scroll also a button, but yet you’ve not given us the option to use it? Trying to simplify settings too much? Why not make it activate the Task View?
Geno ·
I hate tap…I take it off and everytime I shut down or even just close the laptop while live it puts it back on. Cant find any info to fix this. Really really frustrated with this. About to go to Mac soon!
Sharon ·
Touchpad on Windows 10 is incredibly frustrating, as with another comment I had fixed my settings to deactivate the double tap and hovertap options on the pad preferring to tap the mouse when needed but started the laptop today and it had reverted to much annoyance.
Ben ·
I just updated to Windows 10, and now my trackpad is pretty much unusable. If I actually “click” the primary button on the trackpad, it doesn’t work properly, but if I just barely touch the button, it actually selects things or highlights EVERYTHING. I made sure the click-lock is off, but it won’t stop. It has caused me to accidentally send emails and makes pretty much any task unbearable.
Kristy ·
Updated to Windows 10 and when I change the mouse properties for Synaptics TouchPad V 7.5 on PS/2 Port to scroll – that dialog box has an active “apply” button, but the earlier one for mouse properties does not have “apply” enabled. So, the setting works until I close down and the setting is not fully applied, I must reapply with each start up. How can I make this apply even after shut down?
Ashlea ·
I just updated my computer to Windows 10 and when I close my laptop if resets the settings for the mouse every time. I don’t know how to fix it!
Discussion (82)
Excellent resource! Very detailed and easy to follow.
But it’s all for naught, because every time a win10 computer restarts, or updates, all the mouse setting change back to some default.
None of the fixes online work.
Microsoft needs to get its fucking act together!
I want to say a HUGE thank you for this. Spent about two weeks trying to figure out why I couldn’t pause a video and this was the solution. Stupidly I even reinstalled Windows to no avail. Seems the mouse settings were what I needed to fix. Googled everything and just found this.
Thanks!!!!!
Happy to help. Do not hesitate to subscribe to our newsletter, for more useful content.
Can’t seem to find any info anywhere about how the horizontal scrolling should work and how to set it. Devices > Mouse Properties > Horizontal Scrolling only shows the “number of characters,” but I don’t see where to change the wheel from Forward/Back to horizontal scrolling.
: (
How do you turn off the volume control with the scroll wheel. The DPI button does nothing. This is getting really annoying. I suddenly miss Windows 7.
It’s really useful thank you
Thank You. Your info helped me greatly as I am NOT tech smart.
Windows 10, Microsoft mouse: I like using the wheel to “roll and scroll”. But I inevitably and unintentionally press the wheel downward, which enables “move mouse up or down to scroll”, and disables “roll and scroll”. I want to completely disable that “move mouse up or down to scroll” feature, but don’t know how to do it. Any ideas?
I want both of my click buttons to be left click, and change my scroll button to right click. Is there any way to do this on windows 10?
Yes, they fixed it up real nice, now the wheel can only be used to enlarge (temp as always) the picture if I press he control button simultaneously. Again making nice simple things more complicated.
How decrease mouse sensitivity? stop hover action?
Read the “How to change the mouse sensitivity” section from this guide.
in bionic manager my mouse scrolls the page horizontally.
right side scroll bar is missing.
Really good article with very detailed explanations, thanks!
However, I’m still unclear how do you configure a mouse that has more than 2 buttons?
Thank you! We will update this article soon and hopefully we’ll answer your question. In short, you cannot configure the extra buttons directly from Windows 10’s settings. You can do it with the software offered by your mouse’s manufacturer, or with a third-party app such as X-Mouse Button Control.
How do I change from 2-click to 1-click for selections in Windows 10?
I believe you’re referring to File Explorer’s “Single-click to open an item” option. You can find out how to enable it here: Four ways to open files with a single click, instead of a double-click, in Windows.
This does not help anyone. Useless.
Why do you say that? What information were you looking for? Maybe I can help?
You can configure every detail and the wheel still does not work in settings.
I beg to differ- in Windows 10, you cannot configure every little detail of how your mouse works.
Feel free, somebody, to show me where in Windows 10 I can now alter the behaviour of the middle-click- for instance to turn it back into a middle-click instead of emulating the Windows key on this P.O.S Lenovo rubbish I’ve been landed with.
I’m late with a comment, but you’re right. Maybe a third-party app like X-Mouse Button Control can help you?
helpful article but not for me. I just want a BIGGER cursor – hard to find sometimes on the screen because it is so small. You use to be able to customize your cursor, but not anymore. I do not like this feature on Windows 10
Hi, I want to know how I can change the speed to blink of my cursor.
Thank you!
Unfortunately, you cannot do that in Windows 10. 🙁
This doesn’t show me how to do what I did in Windows 7 that I really want in 10: how to set the mouse to open icons with a single click instead of a double.
I believe you’re referring to File Explorer’s “Single-click to open an item” option. You can find out how to enable it here: Four ways to open files with a single click, instead of a double-click, in Windows.
I have a Toshiba Satellite with windows 10. I’m using a Microsoft wireless mouse 3500. How can I get the wheel to double click?
You might be able to do that from the Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center.
i up grades to windos 1 its nice but some times my pointer roles the page to the bottom and wont work for a couple seconds than is eratic i fight with it and win but it slows me down a lot i tryed looking at setings and nothing seemed right any ideas?
I’m not really sure about what you’re trying to say, but have you considered a broken USB port, or maybe even a broken mouse?
My mouse has three buttons and a scroll wheel. Because my left click is kinda touchy I changed my right to primary, that’s fine. My side button functioned as a ‘back’ button, I normally have it as the ‘right-click’ but windows ten won’t let me change it’s function but will still use it as a back button.
I like Win10 over Win8 in that it now resembles a desktop again and not a tablet OS. However there are a few things that are frustrating about it, such as lack of privacy, subscription software (more of an MS gripe), removing popular tools like Media Player and the one thing that fries my eggs… when I click the back button on my mouse, it closes everything to show the desktop, instead of performing the back button function in the browser. Microsoft is messing around too much with the little things that made our user experience smother, easier and more practical.
cant get my mouse to work. Went to settings, device etc and look at my settings for mouse and all looks ok but when I click ok or apply nothing happens. please advise since this happened after the download of windows 10. thanks lots.
I’m using a Toshiba Satellite C675 and once I upgraded to Windows 10 and reconfigured the mouse and touchpad appropriately, the mouse does not work for drop-down menus and scrolls down uncontrollably in some applications (spreadsheets and media player) and windows (computer list of files and folders). Have tried every suggestion with no success. When I remove the USB mouse, I am able to control the scrolling and make selections from a drop-down menu. It is very inconvenient and I’m hoping for a fix soon!
just upgraded to window 10
but i cant scroll the page by using touchpad now as before!!
I can’t get the mouse (actually trackpoint) buttons to switch and stay switched; or be switched consistently (sometimes it won’t be switched on Internet/Chrome). I HATE MICROSOFT and never wanted Windows 10. Can I go back to Windows 7? Will never buy anything from Microsoft; can’t stand them.
Can NOT scroll using mouse wheel after installing Win 10. It worked just fine before. Tried changing settings, and always hit “Apply” and “Ok”, but it still does NOT scroll. I HATE having to to go side of pages to scroll.
Okay… it looks like plenty of people are having significant trouble with mice and touchpads – myself included – and I don’t see Microsoft posting any answers. The normal “fix” does not work for any of us… so what now? In order to get any functioning whatsoever I had to switch left/right mouse button but have no features normally on the right button – no copy and paste, can’t create shortcuts, change icons or anything. I could use it this way but it’s ridiculous to have to do that. Besides, this is a family laptop and not everyone is computer saavy enough to use keys to get to Control Panel when it automatically switches right/left buttons and nothing, including the keyboard, actually works.
Has anyone figured out a solution to this. My zoom feature on touchpad is out of control and it never fails I forget to change the settings at start up and accidentally zoom to unreal, unrealistic levels.
Thank you so much for this post!
I am having the same problem as reported above – after the 10 upgrade, after I go in and configure the Touchpad, all the settings revert to default upon the next start up. It is Synaptics. Any suggestions on how to fix?
Help! I upgraded to Windows 10 and lost the use of my touchpad. I was finally able to use a mouse to download a touchpad driver to get the touchpad to partially work. My problem is the right click button on my touchpad won’t allow me to copy and paste anything. I can now highlight text with the left button (thanks to the tip to uncheck “clicklock”) but when I right click to copy and paste that text, it simply unhighlights it. How can I restore the right click function? I now have the option to “Roll back the driver” but I’m afraid to apply that because I finally got the touch pad partially working and don’t want it to rollback to Windows 10 when it wasn’t working as that option wasn’t even displayed when I first uploaded Windows 10. This has been incredibly frustrating. The Toshiba site identifies my laptop as being compatible with Windows 10. Thanks for any help you can provide.
I just bought a new ASUS for school that came preloaded with 7, but with the option to upgrade to 10. Before the upgrade, I could scroll by dragging two fingers across the touchpad. The update appears to have removed that option, and the settings do not appear to have a way to make this happen.
Read this guide to learn how to configure the touchpad in Windows 10:
https://www.digitalcitizen.life/how-configure-your-touchpad-windows-10
I appreciate the link with the advice. There is a lot of great information but unfortunately there isn’t anything on the page that relates to my issue. I cannot find a setting that allows me to use the touchpad to scroll. The touchpad scrolled before the upgrade to 10 but now it does not.
I have a Lenovo and ever since I upgraded to windows 10 my touch pad does not work. It only works with a mouse which I do not want to use.
Please if anyone can help. I have a Toshiba, I up graded to windows 10 and my touch pad stopped working. Ive managed to get the curser on the screen again and moving but my touch pad buttons are still not working, and I don’t own a mouse.
The “Additional mouse option” isn’t an option for me. It is light grey and I cannot even select it. My touchpad doesn’t work after about 30secs of windows being open. Is there any way to fix this. I’m on husbands laptop who will be heading back to work tomorrow so if anyone can help asap I’d really appreciate it.
I am just checking but have you connected a mouse to the computer to select the options? And what make is the laptop?
mouse buttons and touchpad buttons are not linked… hence left-handed mouse and right-handed touchpad… anyone knows how to solve this?
Have now fixed the problem.
Go to settings, devices, mouse&touchpad, additional settings, ELAN, enable the touchpad, click apply (with mouse or touchscreen not touchpad) , hardware, double click touchpad in options list, change settings, driver, roll back driver, click okay and restart your computer. Hope this is clear enough.
Just updated to windows 10 and cannot use my touchpad isn’t functional. The pointer does not appear on the screen. I had a similar problem as this once before when upgrading to windows 8.1 but this time I am unable to fix it.
HELP!! After upgrading to Windows 10, my mouse wont work as a mouse… If i click the left OR right buttons on my touchpad, the mouse scrolls. I can no longer use the mouse to select, resize, drag and drop, or any functions that I find to be normal. It’s so frustrating. Any idea how I can fix this problem?
How do I stop my touchpad zooming in and out on windows 10
So the way i finally got back to my old system was getting to settings, selecting whichever folder has backup, update, or recovery. I dont remember which thing its under from there (in case you cant tell i blissfully found my way back already) but one of them (i think under recovery) has a separate button for going back to your old operating system. But hurry. It says the option is only available for a month after the upgrade. This is will keep it from restarting all way back to your very first system. You have to be plugged in and they ask why youre leaving but then after a fairly quick update youre home free.
I have the SAME problem. I just updated and now I can’t use my mouse much even after reactivating some options! I’ve tried restarting and again have to tick off mouse options. Most of the options I need are already ticked off so I don’t understand why I can’t use my mouse normally. I’m pissed off as this has rendered my laptop unusable at the speeds I need for university and life!
Figured it out! I have a Toshiba so I went to their support site and downloaded the latest Elan Touchpad and now I’m back to normal. Well, I only restarted once so we’ll see after a couple more restarts I suppose!
Updating to windows 10 is the wrost. I haven’t been able to use my computer in 2 weeks. So frustrating I’ve tried all above methods nothing seems to work. How do I reset upgrade. Where is this located—>Open up regedit.exe
This works 🙂
Open up regedit.exe
Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARESynapticsSynTPInstall
Note this is LOCAL MACHINE, not CURRENT USER.
Look for a key in that Install folder called DeleteUserSettingsOnUpgrade
Double click and change the value to 0
I have no SynapticsSynTPInstall on my computer I get as far as HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARE and that’s where it ends. Any suggestions
Im really irritated with the new update. I have a Asus and like an idiot decided to let it upgrade to windows 10 the night before the first day of school. I let it update over night so when i woke up this morning and tried to operate it i was sorely confused. Beyond the odd new layout and the weird set up was the fact my mouse didnt work. I could move it at the log in screen but once i got to my account it wouldnt even show up. I looked through several help sites until i finally found one that showed me how to turn it back on. I was crazy happy to be able to move my mouse again, but its useless considering the fact it wont click on anything. I cant find anything that tells me how to fix it. I wish i had never bothered with the update.
I think the rollback drivers for the mouse under device manager is the best solution. I have an Asus too and I did roll back my drivers and i can use my mouse again. Go the device manager, look for the drivers for mouse, click properties, drivers and you will see the option that says roll back drivers. Click on it and let it ask you to restart your pc. Do just that and the mouse function should come back on.
I also have an Asus and did as you said to fix my touchpad and mouse control but now every time I close my laptop when I open it back up there are Google Chrome windows opened with like 50 tabs opened in them, have you had this problem?
I also have a Toshiba laptop, upgraded to Win 10 and lost function of mouse. I can tab to control center and activate the trackpad (EACH TIME I TURN ON THE PC) but the buttons do not work……what is interesting, everything works fine until I put in my password and Windows opens up. I left the PC world for Mac a long time ago because of stuff like this….please help.
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Anyone know how to make the twin touch on a touchpad turn into scroll up/down? It acts as a right click now instead of a scroll. It is currently killing my life
i upgraded from windows 8 to 10 and 2 days later my cursor will not stop blinking. how can i stop this it is driving me crazy.
I cannot click on anything without a working mouse keypad. I have no plug in mouse. I am using a borrowed pc.
Ok so I have a Toshiba laptop, updated It to windows 10 and I changed the setting where It makes a delay with your mouse when you press a keyboard button but It doesn’t go away and it stays the same even though I changed the setting to no delay (always on).
I have an Asus G751 laptop and when I set the mouse to be left handed, the touch pad tap becomes a secondary click action instead of remaining a primary button action. Is there a way to flip the buttons but leave the touch pad tap to behave normally as Windows 7 used to do?
I have same problem with settings going back to default at every start up, very annoying. Need a solution
You have to go through the device manager and roll back the touchpad driver and it will work fine.
Above same mouse scroll problem with me after upgrading to windows 10.
the mouse scroll function won’t work with this upgrade. once i shut down the computer and then turn it back on, all of the settings revert back to the original. it does not save any settings. DO NOT LIKE WINDOWS 10.
WORST UPDATE EVER!!!!!
So how do i change what the ‘mouse scroll’ button does? it’s a Microsoft mouse and you’ve made the mouse scroll also a button, but yet you’ve not given us the option to use it? Trying to simplify settings too much? Why not make it activate the Task View?
I hate tap…I take it off and everytime I shut down or even just close the laptop while live it puts it back on. Cant find any info to fix this. Really really frustrated with this. About to go to Mac soon!
Touchpad on Windows 10 is incredibly frustrating, as with another comment I had fixed my settings to deactivate the double tap and hovertap options on the pad preferring to tap the mouse when needed but started the laptop today and it had reverted to much annoyance.
I just updated to Windows 10, and now my trackpad is pretty much unusable. If I actually “click” the primary button on the trackpad, it doesn’t work properly, but if I just barely touch the button, it actually selects things or highlights EVERYTHING. I made sure the click-lock is off, but it won’t stop. It has caused me to accidentally send emails and makes pretty much any task unbearable.
Updated to Windows 10 and when I change the mouse properties for Synaptics TouchPad V 7.5 on PS/2 Port to scroll – that dialog box has an active “apply” button, but the earlier one for mouse properties does not have “apply” enabled. So, the setting works until I close down and the setting is not fully applied, I must reapply with each start up. How can I make this apply even after shut down?
I just updated my computer to Windows 10 and when I close my laptop if resets the settings for the mouse every time. I don’t know how to fix it!
I’m having that problem too