Still awesome in 2024..

[tbone2k-git]

Hello! o)

The website of MouseImp seems rather dead, not much going on here either, but!..
I wanted to say thank you to the developers and maintainers back then, MouseImp is still rocking the desktop experience here! o)

I had to disable the visual change of the mouse pointer when dragging, but other than that, it still does the job on Win10 x64.

Fewer applications respond as expected to MouseImp compared to back then, when everything was 32bit and fewer cross-plattform frameworks were used, but still all the important Windows applications do very well with MouseImp (System-Applications, Browser, Directory Opus, Editplus, Everything-Search etc.), basically all application with native windows code base do fine.

I hope v7.0.0.6 is not the last version of MouseImp that was ever made! o)

Does anyone know: Is there a similarly good working solution to be used on Linux?
It's really difficult to use an OS without MouseImp if you get used to it!

Thank you all, have a nice day! o)

[axxie]

@tbone2k-git thank you very much for your words.
Please do note that I am not the original author of the MouseImp.
I just added support for newer OSes like 10 years ago.
Anyway, thank you for using MouseImp.

[Briahas]

@axxie Thank YOU for working on MouseImp.

[tbone2k-git]

Yes, thank you! o)

"just adding support for newer OSes" probably was not easy, since it introduced the "MouseImp Elevator" windows service and things. You need to know what you are doing to come up with a solution like that. I tried to make MouseImp work on x64 myself back then (if I remember correctly using MI on 64bit was not possible at first), but I totally failed. Dealing with the C++ code, elevation and 32bit vs 64bit was way over my head and unfortunately still is! o)

Even though there are some tools claiming to do the same, only the MouseImp implementation is worth using, since it is pixel perfect and there is no difference in scrolling behaviour / speed compared to using the scroll bar directly, which is perfect! There is no lag, no unwanted acceleration or any inertia which leads to uncontrolled / mushy scrolling.

There is no alternative out there! o) Not sure when I started using MI, it must have been 20 years ago by now, but since then and because of the way it works, it's always been with me! o)