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Vista Tip: View open windows quickly by pressing Wheel on mouse
      #349629 - Fri May 25 2007 06:44 PM

This works on Vista Home Premium and above. Not sure about Vista Basic.

If you click the wheel on a wheel mouse, all the open applications appear in mini windows on the screen. Click one to go to it, or click the wheel mouse again to return to your original location.


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Re: Vista Tip: View open windows quickly by pressing Wheel on mouse [Re: dangermouse75]
      #349631 - Fri May 25 2007 06:53 PM

I think that you have to download the software from Microsoft separately, because it used to work on my system until I uninstalled the software as it screwed games up. Download it here.

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Re: Vista Tip: View open windows quickly by pressing Wheel on mouse [Re: evilmonkeyzz]
      #349681 - Fri May 25 2007 11:08 PM

Very good, yes I forgot I own a Microsoft Optical Wheel Mouse and that download gives you the extra feature.

Cheers.


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Re: Vista Tip: View open windows quickly by pressing Wheel on mouse [Re: dangermouse75]
      #349758 - Sat May 26 2007 03:16 PM

It also works in XP (and right back to W95 by the looks of things) but it disables any other functions related to pressing the scroll wheel such as auto-scrolling web pages or opening links in new windows when using IE7.

You can change it back (or select one of the other available functions) by going to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Mouse. The normal scroll wheel function is "middle-click".


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Re: Vista Tip: View open windows quickly by pressing Wheel on mouse [Re: dangermouse75]
      #351020 - Sat Jun 02 2007 12:36 AM

Works for me thanks for that I didn't know about the feature.

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Re: Vista Tip: View open windows quickly by pressing Wheel on mouse [Re: ronjon]
      #351083 - Sat Jun 02 2007 02:26 PM

Yes, I just tried installing the software on my XP machine and it works exactly the same. Cool

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