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The one I use at work is KatMouse, I tried WizMouse a while back and for some reason didn't like it as well, so I switched back.

Being a Linux user at home means I find Windows almost unbearable without little fixes like this. It should really be built-in.

After using Linux for years, this was a necessary feature for me in Windows. I use the free program <strong>KatMouse</strong> to emulate it in Windows XP/7.

^(I'm not affiliated with KatMouse in any way, I just like the software.)

Ah, that's a shame. I can't stand window focus follows mouse myself for some reason.

Oddly enough on Windows the mouse wheel focus doesn't follow the mouse and it drives me nuts. I have to use KatMouse to fix it, so you'd think I would like focus follows mouse. Maybe I shove the cursor out of the way before I start typing and lose focus or something.

>You have to do multiple clicks just to return to an application.

Click on the app's icon, done.

>Or the fact that windows search isn't a tenth as good as spotlight (doesn't do dictionary, math, and other cool little useful tricks).

Google does.

>And the biggest annoyance: You can only scroll active windows/panes >inside of a window. You have to click too many damn times just to scroll something. Don't happen to have a window open that has multiple scrollable areas, click each one to scroll each one. Strange because hover events work on non-active windows. So I just classify it as broken.

KatMouse

>Lets not get into productivity, as a web developer, using windows as a dev machine sucks, it takes a lot of work to get it up to par. I guess its real advantage comes in if you're a windows-based developer, but I'm not.

What do you use?

Doesn't fix all your problems, but a few annoyances.

Thank you for posting that!

KatMouse also does this and I have been using it for about a decade. However, I don't know if it works on Windows 8/8.1... haven't tried those yet.

http://ehiti.de/katmouse/

I always recommend KatMouse in these threads.

>moving the mouse wheel will scroll the window directly beneath the mouse cursor (not the one with the keyboard focus, which is default on Windows OSes)

In addition I use an AutoHotkey script that enables me to "press" Home and End from my mouse by holding the left button while scrolling up or down respectively. This makes it very easy to scroll to the top or bottom of a web page - just hold the button and scroll up or down.

KatMouse

With KatMouse installed, moving the mouse wheel will scroll the window directly beneath the mouse cursor (not the one with the keyboard focus, which is default on Windows OSes)

There are a few ways to fix this but none are great.

1. Update the opening script to show and lock the toolbar. example
2. Use 3rd party software to disable the scroll wheel for FMP. Try KatMouse. I've heard that the MonkeyBones plugin also offers this option but I've never seen it in action nor seen it documented.
3. Place a 1-row self-joining portal that covers the whole clickable layout where this is a problem. I've never seen anyone use this option but it does work so this is mostly FYI.
4. As /u/HuckleberryJazz said, change the layout to a list view layout. Again, lots of downsides but it does work.

I'm not sure if it works on Windows 10, but KatMouse. The only problems I've had with it were that I can't de-select the auto start option (installer breaks for me) and that I have to mouse over the scroll wheel in a window for it to work at times. Other than those two things, it's totally lightweight and does exactly what I want. I can even use my scroll wheel on windows that aren't currently selected!

Ditto Clipboard Manager (http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net/) Has saved me on more than one occasion. Basically gives you easy access to anything you've ever copied into your clipboard.

KatMouse (http://ehiti.de/katmouse/) Allows you to scroll the window that your mouse is hovering over regardless if it's clicked active or not.

Can't live without it ...

KatMouse (http://ehiti.de/katmouse/) "The prime purpose of the KatMouse utility is to enhance the functionality of mice with a scroll wheel, offering 'universal' scrolling: moving the mouse wheel will scroll the window directly beneath the mouse cursor (not the one with the keyboard focus, which is default on Windows OSes). This is a major increase in the usefullness of the mouse wheel."

I use many of the programs already mentioned here. Two that I also use that I haven't seen listed yet:

<strong>KatMouse</strong>

It does two things for me:

• Huge improvement of the Win2K/XP mouse scroll wheel behavior. Instead of scrolling the currently active window (standard Windows action) it scrolls the window the mouse pointer is over when you use the scroll wheel. This is so much nicer and more intuitive.

• It enables mouse scrolling in applications where the scroll wheel isn't natively supported. The VB6 IDE is a good example of this, I'm sure there are others.

• It has one other feature that I don't use, and that is using the mouse wheel's button to push the current window to the bottom and pop the window under it to become active. I like the middle button for opening links when browsing otherwise I'd probably use this too.

<strong>DisplayFusion</strong>

It adds taskbars and start buttons to your additional display(s). There's a limited free version to try out but the full version is only $25. Absolutely amazing bit of software, definitely the best bit of software I have bought recently (yeah, it was good enough that I upgraded to Pro.)

No, seriously. It's all the little things in the software world. I'm not going to say that Windows is unusable, or is even a bad system, but it's not compatible with me. For example, the first thing I need on any Windows system is KatMouse because Windows scrolling is retarded when left to its own devices. And when working on other systems, the ability to have a hard drive that is fully bootable by any Mac is amazing. I don't have to resort to BartPE or any other live disc shenanigans. I have a disk with 10.6.x on it, and it boots any Mac made in the past 5 years; very useful to do software diag and repair work.

And Migration Assistant.

It is WONDERFUL. Buy a new Mac, and it offers to copy your stuff ( ~~applications~~ programs, data, settings) from an old Mac to a new one. Over ethernet, wireless, FireWire, whatever. And you have a new computer that has all your old stuff.

KatMouse

Lets you mousewheel scroll anything under the cursor, even if it is not the active window (like on a Mac or Firefox windows if another Firefox window is active).

You might want to disable the middle-click feature in the settings.