Through the years, I’ve relied on Windows mouse settings. I barely tweaked them, assuming the defaults were good enough.

Press Win + R, type regedit, and press Enter. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse. These three values control the acceleration curve. Setting all of them to zero ensures Windows applies ...

For years, I never used the extra buttons on the side of my mouse, and mostly just viewed them as a nuisance. Too often I’d click them by accident and trigger some unwanted action, like navigating ...