I’m running Windows 7 on my laptop and when I’m out I use a certain mouse pointer speed / sensitivity, but at home when I plug in to a big 24" monitor and dual-screen it’s too slow so I’m constantly adjusting my mouse pointer speed in the control panel (I take the laptop to work/school every day and plug it in at home so I’m really going back and forth constantly). I’m wondering how I can set this up as (probably) a keyboard shortcut so I can quickly toggle between my 2 preferred settings. Even better if I can work some magic to make it automatically detect when I plug in to an external monitor and change the setting for me but this might be overly fancy and isn’t really necessary - I’d be happy just to use a keyboard shortcut.
Oh, and if there’s a way to do this without downloading special software I would prefer that but if I really have to download something so be it. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
You can do this with the free scripting program Auto HotKey. Here is the directions and the script to do it. You can just double-click on the script on the desktop to run it when you need to or force the script to run through something like keyboard shortcuts.
Thanks Shag, that looks like it might work. I’ll try it when I get home. I fear scripts since I’m not well-versed enough in programming to know wtf they are actually doing to my machine but the code posted there seems harmless enough. It’s interesting that the script comments say the mouse sensitivity has a range from 1-20 since Windows 7 only gives me 11 preset speeds in the control panel GUI. Could that number be incorrect for my OS or is the setting really more precisely graduated than MS wants you to know?