Wow I never knew that

[timwilky]

OK, I work with bloody PCs all the time. But hate the things.

So just trawling the org. I accidentally press the middle button (wheel on my mouse) and this strange up/down set of arrows appear and the page scrolls very nicely.

All these years I have cursed the srcoll bar at the side and somebody had already invented a nice scroll mechanism for me and could be bothered to tell me.

OK I bet you kids already knew about it.

[lily]

:smt045

[Dave20046]

OK, I work with bloody PCs all the time. But hate the things.

So just trawling the org. I accidentally press the middle button (wheel on my mouse) and this strange up/down set of arrows appear and the page scrolls very nicely.

All these years I have cursed the srcoll bar at the side and somebody had already invented a nice scroll mechanism for me and could be bothered to tell me.

OK I bet you kids already knew about it.
It's not useful at all though and is hard to control, however if you click a link with the middle button (scroll wheel if you have it configured like that) it'll open in a new tab, which is very berry useful.

[dawn07]

Thanks! Learned something new today!=D>

[MCN_LiamM]

It's not useful at all though and is hard to control, however if you click a link with the middle button (scroll wheel if you have it configured like that) it'll open in a new tab, which is very berry useful.

That I didn't know. I've been using ctrl + click

[Dave20046]

That I didn't know. I've been using ctrl + click
:smt109 Glad to be of assistance - I use it all the time.

[ophic]

I use it when reading a lot of text - middle click to auto scroll, then set the speed to approximately as fast as you read, then sit back, slurp coffee and read.

[Stu]

My mouse at home has a button each side for Back & Forward pages on the internet (God I miss it at work :D)

[hindle8907]

lol yeah use it all the time you can let go too and make it scroll the page at what ever speed u like,

Edit: * i really need to read other peoples posts lol ... as ophic already said what I put *

[Amplimator]

My mouse at home has a button each side for Back & Forward pages on the internet (God I miss it at work :D)

dont confuse the man hes just learnt how to use mouse button 3 :p

[Spiderman]

welcome to the new world old man!! Woohoo!
;)

[barwel1992]

haha lol my mouse even middle clicks left and right so i have a totall of 8 buttons :lol:

[fastdruid]

My middle mouse button zooms out to the cube (if on the desktop) or pastes if in a document.

Druid

[plowsie]

I used a computer without a scroll wheel on the mouse the other day.

I felt incompetent and nearly cried

[hindle8907]

I used a computer without a scroll wheel on the mouse the other day.

I felt incompetent and nearly cried

lol i know what u mean its feels mad as jam doesn't it.

[mrs cuffy]

Every days a school day ;)

[Nobbylad]

Just don't middle click on a link....

[appollo1]

wish i could get the scroll on the side of my touch pad on my laptop to work again.

[Jayneflakes]

My Laptop has that funtion, at first it used to really bug me, but I grew to like it. Then I stopped using it.

My Linux machine is cool though, it has a brilliant optical mouse and a load of buttons that do all sorts of things, back and forth through pages, up/down, I think one of them would make the tea if I asked it. The laptop though is on boring old XP.

[ophic]

My Laptop has that funtion, at first it used to really bug me, but I grew to like it. Then I stopped using it.

My Linux machine is cool though, it has a brilliant optical mouse and a load of buttons that do all sorts of things, back and forth through pages, up/down, I think one of them would make the tea if I asked it. The laptop though is on boring old XP.
plug the mouse into the laptop... sorted. Boring XP with loads of buttons.

[Lozzo]

So just trawling the org. I accidentally press the middle button (wheel on my mouse) and this strange up/down set of arrows appear and the page scrolls very nicely.

All these years I have cursed the srcoll bar at the side and somebody had already invented a nice scroll mechanism for me and could be bothered to tell me.


Derrrrr... welcome to the 1990s

[Littlepeahead]

I discovered that those little bottles of drink full of friendly bacteria may well be good for your insides, but they are not good for the insides of your PC and when you ring the IT dept to inform them of this they will be quite cross.

[Nobbylad]

I discovered that those little bottles of drink full of friendly bacteria may well be good for your insides, but they are not good for the insides of your PC and when you ring the IT dept to inform them of this they will be quite cross.

Yeah...but they all have beards and wear sandals :smt045

[Lozzo]

IT Dept staff aren't real people, they've been created in a lab to test your ability to hold back laughter.

[Nobbylad]

IT Dept staff aren't real people, they've been created in a lab to test your patience.

Fixed

[kieranmacdonald]

wish i could get the scroll on the side of my touch pad on my laptop to work again.

Mine stopped working too. It may just be that you need to update the driver for the touchpad.

What is the laptop model?

[fastdruid]

IT Dept staff are real people that have been ground down by the lies, idiocy and stupidity of users who should never be let loose within a 100m of anything more technical than a pencil.

Fixed it for ya.

Druid

[Stu]

fastdruid sounds much cooler than ITdruid good choice :thumbsup: