

VolumouseĪs I’ve mentioned before, I love the coders over at Nirsoft because they always create awesome little utilities that fix specific problems in Windows. Another program that does the same thing is WizMouse. Highly recommended even if you think you might never use it. Thankfully, it has an option to start with Windows and if you only need it for one session, you can just press the To-Tray button to minimize the program but keep it running in the background.

Once you run the program, it’s set by default to just forward the wheel command to that particular window, but you can also choose to bring the window forward using the wheel. I personally have a bunch of windows open all the time and since Windows doesn’t have the same virtual desktop features yet like OS X, you end up with a lot of overlapping windows. Such a simple little tweak, but it’s amazing how many times I’ve actually used it. It basically makes all windows scrollable even if they are not active. Always Wheel is a tiny little portable app that does something I really think should have been built into Windows as a feature.
