# I just made a drevolutionary (to me) discovery! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 26, 2002, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-made-a-drevolutionary-to-me-discovery/105831 "2002-04-26T18:57:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-made-a-drevolutionary-to-me-discovery/105831/1 "2002-04-26T18:57:16Z")
My mouse seemed to cease working satisfyingly, cleaning didn’t help, so I bought a new one; not a sumptous expensive one, but a standard thing for 6.40 euros. I plugged it in, it works beautifully. Now, for no apparent reason (most likely boredom), I click the middle one of its three buttons (I never use the middle button), and boom! the cursor changes into a circle with two arrows that allows me to scroll down much more comfortably than with keys or the bar on the right - just moving the mouse around, and everything’s fine! What a charm! It will revolutionize my behaviour. And make me wonder why my old mouse couldn’t do stuff like this. Of course other have enjoyed similar, or better, things for a long time, but to me it’s new. And the best thing: I discovered it all alone. Tell me, isn’t that a source of pride? ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-made-a-drevolutionary-to-me-discovery/105831/2 "2002-04-27T01:34:27Z")
I was ecstatic when I found out I could toggle between applications while holding down the ATL+TAB buttons. Of course, that was about 5 years ago. Obviously, I am very easily impressed. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-made-a-drevolutionary-to-me-discovery/105831/3 "2002-04-27T01:37:11Z")
I was amazed when the other day someone taught me what happens when you click on the number of posts in a thread on the forum display page. ---
**Author:** ![Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@Nenya\_Elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nenya_Elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-made-a-drevolutionary-to-me-discovery/105831/4 "2002-04-27T01:57:51Z")
I’m not so sure I like the click-the-mouse-wheel scrolling function…for me it goes by way to fast so it’s hard to control. But some mice let you just roll the wheel up and down to scroll; I like that. The ALT-TAB thing is terribly cool. I just discovered it a couple of months ago and i use it all the time now. Dunno how I figured it out, though! Mystery. The other cool thing is CTRL-ALT-DEL as a way to see what you’ve got running, not just for shutting down the computer. Neato. Anyhoo, congratulations **Schnitte** on your discovery! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@meyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meyer)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-made-a-drevolutionary-to-me-discovery/105831/5 "2002-04-27T02:11:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried \* > \*\*I was amazed when the other day someone taught me what happens when you click on the number of posts in a thread on the forum display page. \*\* :eek: My God - my life is changed!