Click Apply and OK, then check if your mouse wheel scrolls erratically. Go to the Pointer Options tab and uncheck Hide pointer while typing. Here are some other programs that do similar things. Under the Wheel tab, turn down the scroll speed. I think it is losing the Windows hook somehow. I run it at work on Windows 10 Enterprise and at home on Windows 10 Home.Īt work it runs for weeks with no problem. Then as the volume changes the icon gets updated to the appropriate one. I ended up using Gimp to create several 16x16 icons, each with a different level indicated. I created a simple static class (VolumeController) to wrap the things we need (Volume Up, Volume Down, Mute, etc.) Icon(s)Īs I was testing the program, I decided that I wanted a visual indicator of the volume as it changed. Thankfully, I ran across the NAudio library that gives makes it easy. I was surprised how hard that turns out to be from. Once installed via nuget, it was simply a matter of declaring a variable of type IKeyboardMouseEvents and then setting up the hook and the event listeners. NET wrappers that do the hard work for us. Hooking in Windows is a little complicated. If the mouse is over our icon, we know we should change the volume. Then we’ll get the location of the icon and the location of the mouse. So, the idea is to install a mouse hook and have it call us when the wheel scrolls. I wrapped this code into a class called NotifyIconInfo. Fortunately, someone calling themselves quppa figured it out and posted the code in a blog post. NET involves a lot of Win32 app calls (p/invokes). Windows 7 introduced a function (Shell_NotifyIconGetRect) to get the location of an icon in the system tray.

The main problem is to figure out how to tell if the mouse is over our icon when the scroll event happens. However, in Windows, it is possible to install a mouse hook and be notified when events (including scrolling) happen. And while it provides events to check mouse clicks, it does not provide a way to tell when the mouse wheel scrolls. The Windows Forms NotifyIcon component makes it easy to put an icon into the system tray. use the mouse scroll wheel to zoom in or out. Volume Scroller is a Window Forms program written in C#. GOM Lab offers a wide range of multimedia software, mobile apps, and web services, from video player to video editor, such as GOM Player, GOM Mix Pro, etc. The USB mouse is the recommended method for controlling the system. You can download the latest release here How it works

Wheel, Sets the mouse wheel to zoom in and out by default. You can also left-click on the icon to mute/unmute the volume. Consists of controls that are used to set preferences for a wheeled mouse. Just hover your pointer over the icon in the system tray and scroll your wheel to adjust the volume. Volume Scroller is a program for controlling your computer’s audio volume via the mouse wheel.

Mouse wheel controlling volume