Comments on: Use “snap to” feature of mouse attached to your PC/computer

By: karhu100

karhu100 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:33:52 +0000

Good little tip this one

Thanks.

If you look on the picture above, at the bottom it has a box for a tick to show pointer using control button.
Obviously Kanak’s friend has this set. Just like the bottom taskbar hiding automatically the mouse cursor does the same, so as it’s not in the way when your reading or typing.
Just press control and your cursor will show.

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:08:39 +0000

This is a nice feature that I have known about for sometime. What I would like to know is how to make this change permanent. If you need to reboot then you will have to reset the snap to pointer option.

By: kanak

kanak — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:05:20 +0000

hey sorry, not mouse .. i meant mouse pointer. Since the pointer will suddenly move to the button, My friends ( obviously not form computer’s side ) were having problem in figuring out where the pointer went. Later when i explained them, they were fine with it

kanak’s last blog post..Watch Live Streaming of All Indian TV channels , Sports Channels , News and Regional Channels

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:37:35 +0000

Kanak, Even if the mouse pointer moves away,the default button on the dialog box will still have the focus. So all you need to do is press “spacebar” or “Enter”.If the default option is not what you want to choose use the arrow keys to navigate to the other button and press “spacebar” or “enter”…

I am not sure what you meant by mouse getting disappeared…and your friends had problems searching for it ??!! What mouse were they searching for and where??

By: kanak

kanak — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 10:09:50 +0000

I remember using this tip once. Guess what happened, it got very difficult for me to adjust to it, since you are always used to draggin your mouse to the button, so once any dialog box used to appear, my hand over mouse will automatically move, and hence moving mouse pointer away. And then the second point, since mouse was getting disappeared suddenly, some of my friends had little problem searching where it went ,and third the point mentioned by Nirmal …

kanak’s last blog post..How do you feel when your comment is caught by a spam protector plugin ??

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 06:44:58 +0000

i do understand what you say nirmal…yes most of dialog boxes have the defaults set on cancel or NO button…one need to be moving the left arrow keys(assuming that the cancel or NO button is always on the right, in most well designed professional dialog boxes)

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 06:07:16 +0000

This is a very useful tip, but problem with this one is that sometimes you may get annoyed as it snaps to the default one. Nirmal's last blog post..How to Change Font Smoothing in Safari Browser

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 03:40:32 +0000

Yes they do…am glad you liked it..

By: silki

silki — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:30:20 +0000

Yes, such small tips are very useful in practical uses, and save you time. silki's last blog post..Free Screen Sharing and Remote Access Web Tools