Win­dows doesn’t always work “prop­erly” or in a way you would expect it to work. One of this minor annoy­ances is the mouse wheel. For instance, you’d expect that mov­ing the mouse wheel will scroll the win­dow directly beneath the mouse cur­sor and not the one with the input focus. For­tu­nately, there are a few freely avail­able tools that are able to fix this issue.

There are Kat­Mouse, Wiz­Mouse and Wheel Here. While I like Kat­Mouse the most, the other two pro­grams offer the same basic func­tion­al­ity. Kat­Mouse just goes a few steps fur­ther and adds a few more inter­est­ing options. Just try them out to decide for your­self. If you want to pay for your daily soft­ware fix, take a look at MouseEasy. Ah, I almost for­got the X-Mouse fea­tures you can acti­vate with the Pow­er­toys. I don’t really like X-Mouse because it acti­vates a win­dow but hey, that’s your choice.