When your mouse wheel suddenly starts scrolling in the opposite direction, you might think the issue lies with your hardware. But you can often fix a mouse behaving erratically without replacing ...

[Thomas] loves his Logitech MX Master mouse, which has a pretty elaborate scroll-wheel mechanism. Perhaps too elaborate; it broke on him after a week of use, just when he was getting used to the ...

No doubt you use your mouse’s scroll wheel to scroll up and down in browser windows and in programs like Microsoft Word – perhaps without even realizing it. If you’re a gamer, you may even find it to ...

Sitting in front of a computer all day isn’t exactly what the firmware between our ears was tuned to do. We’re supposed to be hunting and gathering, not hunting and pecking. So anything that makes the ...

A mouse with a rubber or plastic wheel. When the wheel is moved on the scroll mouse, the content in the active application window scrolls up or down. Introduced in the mid-1990s, the scroll mouse ...

Adam Benjamin has helped people navigate complex problems for the past decade. The former digital services editor for Reviews.com, Adam now leads CNET's services and software team and contributes to ...