This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off scroll inactive windows when hovering over them for your account in Windows 11.
Windows includes a built-in feature to let you scroll inactive windows by just hovering over them with the mouse pointer without your currently active window losing focus.
Contents
- Option One: Turn On or Off Scroll Inactive Windows in Settings
- Option Two: Turn On or Off Scroll Inactive Windows using REG file
- Option Three: Turn On or Off Scroll Inactive Windows using Command
1 Open Settings (Win+I).
2 Click/tap on Bluetooth & devices on the left side, and click/tap on Mouse on the right side. (see screenshot below)
3 Turn On (default) or Off Scroll inactive windows when hovering over them for what you want. (see screenshot below)
4 You can now close settings if you like.
1 Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you would like to do.
2 Turn On Scroll Inactive Windows
This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Turn_On_scroll_inactive_windows.reg
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"MouseWheelRouting"=dword:000000023 Turn Off Scroll Inactive Windows
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Turn_Off_scroll_inactive_windows.reg
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"MouseWheelRouting"=dword:000000004 Save the .reg file to your desktop.
5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.
6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.
7 Either sign out and sign in or restart the computer to apply.
8 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.
1 Open Windows Terminal, and select either Windows PowerShell or Command Prompt.
2 Copy and paste the command below you want to use into Windows Terminal, and press Enter.
(On)
reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /V MouseWheelRouting /T REG_DWORD /d 2 /FOR
(Off)
reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /V MouseWheelRouting /T REG_DWORD /d 0 /F3 Either sign out and sign in or restart the computer to apply.
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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