Some applications have the nasty habit of bringing their program windows into focus even though they appear most of the time unwanted and in inappropriate moments. This happens from time to time when I’m reading an article on a website or in Word. The bad thing that is happening is that the focus is lost on the document that I’m currently reading even if the new window is just a small popup informing me about an update.
PC Hover Wheel is a tiny application that sits in the system tray. It adds one functionality to Windows and that is that you can always scroll the window the mouse is placed on. This means that you can scroll the document even though a popup or another window opened in Windows, great for ignoring it until you finished reading.
I personally like the idea of the script but would prefer if it would be integrated into a bigger script collection to justify starting this script with Windows. My system tray would be filled with this great tiny one-purpose scripts otherwise.
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WARNING – a download from the link above comes with Trojan Horse: SHeur.ABKE (according to AVG). Did you test this before posting, Martin?
Did you check what SHeur.ABKE means ? Virustotal reports that most virus scanners do not see this as a virus or trojan. This is a download from a big German PC Mag and I highly doubt that it contains a virus.
I got same s Zed saids, virus dedected Trojan.
As an alternative download TweakUI from microsoft. Then under Mouse > X-Mouse check the option for “Activation follows mouse”