20 Free Tools To Increase Your Mouse Productivity(WIN)
Mouse is probably most use hardware utility if you exclude typing because it’s easy to use feature. It helps us to do thing fast. Now to get a certain output through mouse we need to do some manual work. Most of those tools discussed below are helped you to reduce that manual work and give your mouse more productivity.
1. StrokeIt is an advanced mouse gesture recognition engine and command processor which can recognize more than 80 unique mouse gestures and can be easily trained to recognize many more. Just click and hold down the right mouse button and then draw the mouse gesture you want performed. It definitely helps you to open a program by drawing something on screen, very effective for those people who want to work fast and always put their hand on mouse.
2. Volumouse helps you to quickly and easily control the sound volume on your system – simply by rolling the wheel of your wheel mouse. It allows you to define a set of rules for determining when the wheel will be used for changing the sound volume. For example: You can configure Volumouse to control the volume when mouse is pointed over taskbar. Very interesting software for song lovers.
3. Auto Mouse Mover Software Utility allows you to move the mouse automatically which prevents your computer from logging off in Window operating system. It is an excellent software when you installing big software or something similar to that.
4. Mouse Jiggler another useful utility almost similar to previous software utility, it to help you active your screen by putting fake click on screen.
5. Middle-Click To Go Back is an useful Firefox addon which help surfer. It works as the name suggest, just middle click on any empty space on any page and it will put you back, no need to click in back button. Also have other useful function.
6. AltMove windows & mouse manager is another useful program which help you to resize and move any window which not let you do that in normal circumstance. Also have a mouse gesture feature which will help you to open any program from anywhere. It also helps you to hide a window and later restore it.
7. Mouse Speed Switcher allows you to quickly and easily switch 2 sets of mouse settings. It’s good when you have two mouse and want to put different speed on those two mouse. Very useful program for laptop users.
8. X-Mouse Button Control is a windows application to remap your mouse buttons. It is helpful for those who want to boost mouse feature in each program. You can make mouse work differently in each program.
9. MIDI Mouse Mod which allows you to move the mouse on a grid and modify up to 4 continuous MIDI controllers in realtime. Very useful program for multimedia lovers.
10. Magnifixer allow you to zoom anything anywhere on your desktop up to 40x. You can place it anywhere on your screen, make it any size you want and select a zoom level. Very useful for those who have problem to watch small text.
11. WizMouse is an excellent tool which reduce your time. It gives you the ability to scroll the window where mouse is pointed, no matter it is active or not. Very useful timesaver utility.
12. Kid-Key-Lock is a simple program to lock specific keyboard and mouseĀ functions. Very useful if you have a newbie PC user. It helps you to lock any mouse button event. For instance double click and right mouse button can be locked to save files from accidental delete.
13. Mouse Recorder Pro is an input recording application which help you to record all mouse and keyboard activity. Very effective program when you want to monitor your friend activity on your website to know in which position your visitor put much attention.
14. OfficeOne ShowMouse help you to show mouse pointer during PowerPoint presentation which is by default is hidden. Very useful for demo show where you need to point your mouse on certain areas during presentation.
15. FreeMouse is an utility which work like PacMan game, when you reach and cross the right side of the screen, your mouse pointer will reappear at the left side of the screen.
16. Auto Clicker will help you to click on a specific place on your screen after certain time interval. All you need to put coordinate and it will work for you. You can try Coordinate Finder to know the coordinate of a mouse position.
17. Shark Mouse is a tool which allows you to move mouse using keyboard, though Windows allow you to do that but you need some hard manual work. I use this software to paint a picture using mouse. You may have something similar need.
18. Mousotron keeps track of how much you move or click your mouse. Also the number of keystrokes is measured.Very handy tool to measure your habit.
19. MouseMixer enables quick and easy swapping of the primary mouse button. One click will automatically change from left to right and vice versa.
20. MouseShade is a very effective tool for presentations or demos. It put a spotlight like we see on theater to put people attention on certain area.




What a phenomenal list of utilities. I drafted an article on my blog to highlight this accomplishment.
Rick
Thank you for this very cool list.
There are some great tools here to make computing a little easier.
Bill
Thanks Rick! I hope I will get some encouraging ideas from you in future again.
Thanks Bill for your encouraging word.