Windows/Scroll Wheel/Notepad Question

Factual Questions
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      • I have Windows 98SE and a Logitech (2-btn + wheel) optical mouse (USB on a PS/2 adaptor) using the standard Windows mouse driver. The wheel scrolls three lines every time it is moved, and I want to be able to change it, or either set it to 5 or 10 lines.
  • I know I have seen the setting for this somewhere, but I can’t remember where, and I can’t find it. I used to have a tablet+mouse that required their own drivers, and the mouse also had scroll buttons, so it might have been there… -Otherwise, I yam stumped.
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  • If this is not possible, then where can I download a free Notepad-style plain text editor that displays line numbers? I have HTML stuff to do, and I get tired of the “error on line xxx” stuff… - DougC
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I don’t think Notepad has line numbers?

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Well, I’ll write your Notepad w/line numbers if you would like, however it’d be pretty simple. I just thought of a great way of making the numbers (which is what stopped me the last time I tried…). Send an e-mail to [EMAIL=trainsnpep@aol.com]Mike B and I’ll get back to you with the program in a few days (depending on how I feel this week ;))

Anyway, go to Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Mouse. Usually there is a tab up on top for ‘Wheel.’ I say usually because with some mice that you install, they may write a new set of controls for the mouse. Most don’t however some do…

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P. S. You may want to check out www.textpad.com or www.editplus.com .

Although they’re not free, both offer evaluations.

My program will be as basic as notepad, but that’s all I’ll feel like doing

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Go to the Microsoft site and search for TweakUI, a downloadable utility. It allows you to modify the mouse wheel scroll setting and handle many other useful things.

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      • I looked for TweakUI a couple times on MS but it said that it was no longer beng distributed, and that was that. I did find it somewhere else though. - DougC
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Uh, unless it’s different for a wireless mouse, got to Control Panel, Mouse, Wheel tab, settings.

You can set the wheel to scroll anywhere from 0 lines to thousands of lines per turn.

I use NT with a wired mouse.