Published on February 16, 2012 By Island Dog In Personal Computing

This is one of my favorite features of WindowFX, although there are many cool features which are equally as cool. Many people think WindowFX is only about animating windows and the start menu on your Windows PC desktop. Sure, that’s a big part of it but there’s other things that are especially useful as well. Let's look at what you can do using your middle mouse button.

You can set WindowFX to enable a flip feature where when you press the middle mouse button the window will “flip” and show you process information, allow you to open the containing folder, etc.


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on Feb 16, 2012

Way cool. The program is one of my favorites from Stardock!

on Feb 28, 2012

Middle mouse button???  I haven't seen a 3 button mouse in years, why did you choose that trigger?

on Feb 28, 2012

gevansmd
Middle mouse button???  I haven't seen a 3 button mouse in years, why did you choose that trigger?

 

I haven't seen a mouse without a middle mouse button in a decade or more.  

on Feb 28, 2012

gevansmd
Middle mouse button???  I haven't seen a 3 button mouse in years, why did you choose that trigger?
Most modern mice have a scroll wheel and most of those can be pushed down upon.

on Feb 28, 2012

Ok, thank you for enlightening me regarding the "middle" mouse button.  However, I don't have the misc. animations menu choice.  Is it Windows 7 only?

on Feb 28, 2012

Some of the animations are currently Windows 7 only.

 

on Feb 28, 2012

Do you need to enable anything to have the icon of the flipped application? I always see the place holder icon (default icon) of the icon packager theme, which is in use if the file/exe does not have a specific icon. I have already mentioned that in the beta thread, but got no feedback so far.

on Feb 29, 2012

Asound
Do you need to enable anything to have the icon of the flipped application? I always see the place holder icon (default icon) of the icon packager theme, which is in use if the file/exe does not have a specific icon. I have already mentioned that in the beta thread, but got no feedback so far.
Are you running any other customization apps?

on Feb 29, 2012

I run windowsblinds 7, CursorFX and Icon Packager. Okay,Rainmeter and CD Art Display too. I use win 7 64bit prof.

Even with the standard icons and gui theme, it still shows the default icon.

on Feb 29, 2012

I can't get the middle button (wheel) to flip.

on Feb 29, 2012

I can't get the middle button (wheel) to flip.

Not all of them will register as a 'middle mouse click'.  What kind of mouse is it?  Did it come with any software?

on Feb 29, 2012

Asound
I run windowsblinds 7, CursorFX and Icon Packager. Okay,Rainmeter and CD Art Display too. I use win 7 64bit prof.

Even with the standard icons and gui theme, it still shows the default icon.

It appears there is a bug in IconPackager that is breaking the ability to obtain the exe icons.

Right now the only fix is to uninstall IconPackager, but we will be looking into if we can fix the bug in an IP update.

on Mar 01, 2012

Rosco_P
Not all of them will register as a 'middle mouse click'. What kind of mouse is it? Did it come with any software?

Microsoft Wireless Mobile Mouse 6000. Yes. The middle button is also the wheel.

on Mar 01, 2012

There may be a way in the settings software to assign different things to the different buttons.  There may be a way to set the wheel clicking to a 'middle button click', though it depends on the software, and I'm not familiar with Microsoft's.

on Mar 01, 2012

Microsoft Wireless Mobile Mouse 6000
Check the intelipoint software to see if they are usinng the middle click for something.

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