Welcome back, in this video I’ll be showing you how to setup a mouse in Windows 10. In
most cases, when you connect your mouse, it should work straight away but if it doesn’t
or if it doesn’t work as you though it should then hopefully this video will help.
We’ll start by focusing on the connection of the mouse to your PC. Whether its wired
or wireless it will likely be connected using one of the USB ports. Depending on how old
your mouse is, it may only work on USB 2 ports and if you don’t have any of these on the
front of your case then there should be some on the back if you have a desktop. You can
try using all the ports if the mouse doesn’t work in one of them.
If you have any problems with your mouse or if it doesn’t work properly at this stage,
then I have a separate video that will cover a few possible solutions. Click the card now
to watch that, or you can get there via the link in the description.
Now that we have connected our mouse, we’ll now check that we have the latest drivers.
There will be two ways to check for drivers and the first method will be to go to the
manufacturer’s website. Just search for your mouse’s manufacturer and if they have
drivers available, there should be a page where you can download and install them from.
If you can’t find any drivers online, then we can let Windows try and find them automatically.
To do this we’ll need to go to the device manager first, you can get there by searching
for it in the search bar. In the device manager, look for where it says, “mice and other
pointing devices”. Expand this section by clicking on the arrow to the left and there
should now be a list of all the mice on your PC. Chances are, there’ll just be one but
if there isn’t find your device and double click on it. When the new window opens, go
to the driver tab which should be the second option. Now click update driver and then choose
the automatic option. Allow Windows to search for and install any drivers it finds. If there
are no updates, then we can move on to customizing the mouse within Windows 10.
Before we go any further, depending on your mouse, you may be able to get software from
the manufacturer to customize it, this will probably be the case if you have RGB lighting
or additional buttons to assign. You should be told where to get this from either on the
box of the mouse or within it but search for your make and model of mouse on the manufacturers
website if you think there might be software to customize it.
We can customize some mouse settings within Windows and to do this we need to go to the
main settings page first. You can get here by clicking on the cog icon from within the
start menu. In settings, go to devices and then choose mouse from the options on the
left side of the screen. There are a few things in here that we can do, for example we can
change the primary mouse button and some of the scroll settings. To get more options to
change, first go to “adjust mouse and cursor size” from the options on the right side.
In here, we can change the size of the pointer at the top and change its appearance too.
For example, we can change it to a different colour. We can also change the cursor thickness
and you can see the preview for how that would look. For more customization, we can click
on additional mouse options, from the main mouse settings page, which is the page we
were on before this one. This will open a new window. The first tab called buttons doesn’t
have many options but have a look just in case there’s something you want to change.
In the pointers tab, we can change the appearance of the pointer for each of the options on
the list. We can change the entire scheme with the drop-down box at the top or each
of the individual options by double clicking one and then choosing a new style in the browse
window. The next tab, called pointer options, allows us to first change the speed and there
are more options in here too if you want to change them. The final tab to customize is
the wheel tab and this has options that will affect the scroll wheel.
And so that’s how to setup and customize your mouse in Windows 10. If you have any
questions, feel free to ask them in the comments and I will try and reply as soon as I can.
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