Easy Scroller

Sure enough virtual reality is closer than ever before, but the mouse and keyboard are still going to be here for a long while. Various third-party applications can be used to tweak functionality of input peripheral devices to your liking. For instance, Easy Scroller lets you use page buttons to replace your broken mouse scroll wheel.

On the one hand, the application saves you the whole effort of going through a setup process. This means you can carry it around on a USB flash drive along with other tools you need to use on other computers besides your own. Don’t worry about the health status of the target PC, because registry entries are not modified, nor any traces left.

The application spends most of its time hidden in the tray area. All controls you need can easily be found and accessed from the corresponding tray menu. In fact, the program doesn’t even come with a window of its own, thus minimizing your effort to a minimum, and saves some time as well.

The process is activated as soon as the program starts. You can clearly view this from the icon, which changes when the state is toggled off. On the bright side of things, toggling the activation state is easily done through the preset hotkey configuration.

When active, you can use the page up and page down buttons on your keyboard to scroll through content just like you do with a mouse wheel. It moves pretty smooth, and you’re sure not to jump over anything of interest. The only downside to the entire operation is the lack of option to configure sensitivity.

In conclusion, Easy Scroller is sure to come in handy if your mouse wheel suddenly fails, and you’re not really in a position to purchase a new one. Adding a shortcut to the system startup folder makes it run with Windows, and is active as soon as it starts, deserving at least a try overall.