Windows Vista Support

It’s been a while since the last update to MouseImp code. As recently reported, MouseImp had issues in Windows Vista. I have traced the code and made several modifications to MIPro.DLL in order to fix these issues. It seems now that basic functions work correctly in Vista.

Download updated MIPro.DLL with Windows Vista support

If you detect any bugs or issues, please post them here as a comment to this article.

Note: this version of MIPro.DLL does not support Mozilla FireFox, as I don’t have the source code for the one that does. However, there is an excellent plug-in that does exactly what MouseImp has to do, only in FireFox. It’s called Grab and Drag, and can be downloaded from http://grabanddrag.mozdev.org/

Update: the Vista capable MIPro.DLL is now part of the main distributive. If you are new to MouseImp, you may simply download the full version of MouseImp Pro Live!

64 thoughts on “Windows Vista Support”

  1. the newest version mouseimp pro works fine with vista explorer,but no action in ie7(vista os).thanks for the message “http://grabanddrag.mozdev.org/”,i had searched the same function software in firefox,and no one is suit for me.
    by the way,can these function fill in one mipro.dll?

  2. I’ll try. I assure you, however, that the latest MIPro.DLL works fine with IE7. You just need to stop MouseImp if it was running, replace the DLL with the new one (if the system does not let you do this, rename the old DLL). Then log off and log on into Windows (or simply reboot your PC).

  3. unfortunatly,it does not work in my ie7,under vista os.
    another question,in this article,the download dll, href is “Download updated MIPro.DLL with Windows Vista support”,size is 88k,while the newest miproLive! setup programe installed the mipro.dll file size is 52k,but i didn’t feel what differents they are.

  4. I guess I’ll just make a new installation distributive once the DLL is fully tested. BTW, try setting MouseImp for the RIGHT mouse button to check if it’ll work in IE7. I have just figured myself that the MIDDLE button does not work with IE7 for some reason, but the right one does. I’ll try to fix this one as well.

  5. I updated the installer, so the default download now contains the updated MIPro.DLL with Vista support. If you are updating an existing installation of MouseImp, make sure to exit the program first, then install the update to the same folder, and then reboot Windows. If you don’t restart your computer, the old MIPro.DLL can not be deleted, so the patch won’t work.

  6. Dear Sir,
    I really like to use MouseIMP,it’s very useful utility to scroll up/down window. Recently I upgrade to outlook 2007 and I found MouseIMP can’t work with Outlook 2007. I am looking forward to have revised version to fix this problem.

    Thanks.

  7. There’s currently no MouseImp fix for the Office 2007 applications. Apparently, a new scrolling method is used in Office 2007. I will investigate this issue some time in the future, but no promises here. I’ll keep posting updates on this matter.

  8. hey guys,
    just checked your already brilliant app.
    but why is the function of my right mouse button totally occupied by mouseimp????
    with it running I no longer can use my convenient StrokeIt.
    Please help me!!!

  9. Hannes,

    You can assign the middle mouse button in MouseImp, thus releasing the right one. That’s in Configure – Direct Scroll – Activate on – Middle Mouse Button

  10. sorry – found out, that after shutdown strokeit worked without obstacles in the next windows session.

  11. But another conflict:
    i have unchecked auto scroll in firefox but nevertheless mouseimp wont work.
    could you leave any tip?PLEASE!!

    regards from stuttgart,
    Hannes

  12. Hello Mouse Imp fans.

    To make Mouse imp work in Firefox just install ” Scrollbar Anywhere “.

    Get it Here: http://perso.orange.fr/marc.boullet/ext/extensions-en.html

    Note that the settings conflict. Just leave the boxes in Scrollbar
    blank and Imp will control.

    Their is no Scrollbar for Thunderbird but Grab and Drag works
    in TBird without ImpMouse.

    Thanks very much to the kind persons who fixed Imp to work with
    Vista. I have been using ImpMouse since long before it was free.
    I really missed it.

    WELL DONE !!!

    Richard
    Enjoy
    Richard

  13. MouseImp Pro (live) does not seems to work in MS Outlook applications like Outlook and Word. Is this a known problem? Any solutions to expect? Thank you.

  15. Hello,
    Thanks for the update which enables MouseImpPro to work in Vista. It works fine in Avant and Maxthon. However, it doesn’t work in Opera 9.2 – perhaps you can restore Opera compatibility eventually? Thanks for this great little utility.

  17. Wonderful! Even without the source code to support Firefox – using the ‘Grab and Drag’ plugin is a very good solution (the best actually for me).
    Just wanted to say ‘thank you’ for continuing in development. Keep up the good work!!!

  18. Hello all,
    wouldn’t it be wonderful to have MouseImp running in Windows XP x64 or Vista x64? Is this version of MouseImp compatible with the x64 windows’ ?
    If not, please, please, please compile a MouseImp64 release!!!
    (this would definitely make my day)

  19. > Is this version of MouseImp compatible with the x64 windows’ ?

    I don’t know! I don’t have the 64-bit version handy, and can’t test it. If you have Vista64, would you mind installing MouseImp for a quick compatibility test?

  20. Ohhh, wonderful – this site is not dead yet!!! (smile)
    Well, i do not have any vista64 versions at hand, but i am installing windowsxp64 at the weekend. And, of course i will install mouseimp for a test (can’t live without it any more)
    The problem i see is, that e.g. explorer is a 64 bit application (using 64 bit dll’s) and mouseimp is (??) 32bits. So the call from a 32bit dll to a 64bit dll (and vice versa) does not work anymore.
    WinXp64 has, of course, a WOW64 implementation and there is another explorer (32 bit) which might allow mousimp to run.
    Speaking of native 32bit apps running in xp64, well i might think mouseimp must work as expected.
    But, the test results will follow after this weekend…
    Cheers

  21. ok, here are the results of running mouseimp in WinXPx64: As expected, it runs in a 32bit process and all other 32bit software is working seamlessly with mouseimp. But, all native 64bit software does not see mouseimp – this is especially annoying for e.g. windows explorer. Any ideas of compiling a 64bit mouseimp? (i will be happy to test it…)

  22. I’ll see what I can do for x64. So far it seems that you’d need to run two versions of MouseImp simultaneously; one for 32-bit, and one for 64-bit applications. I don’t have any experience in developing hook DLLs for the 64-bit environment, let alone support 32 and 64 bits in one binary. If someone who does comes along, please email me!

  23. hi aoleg,

    thank you very much for this piece of work, the best out there im telling you. thought im on vista x64 and it doesn’t work on native x64 apps, but still gotta say this thing rocks!

  24. Just installed the new version which support Opera and Mozilla Firefox. I’m very happy with it! I previously used the old dll for Mozilla, but that one had an incompatibility with Microsoft Access 97-2003 (would hang for a few moments when scrolling a table, than closing it). I’m happy to report that the new version works flawlessly in both Mozilla and MS Access.

  27. Great, finally it works in Opera/Office’07! Thanks a lot to everyone!

    P.S. Any plans to get horizontal scroll working in Office’07 as well? ?

  28. The new feauture is welcome.
    But a question: isn’t it possible that scrolling would work sideways as well?

  29. Unfortunately, horizontal scrolling is quirky in the Office apps, so I had to revert to unidirectional scrolling here.

  30. Thanks Aoleg – for taking this on. I’ve been looking for such a thing for a long time. I had finally found an add-on for Firefox that did this (called “Grab and Drag”) which worked great. But I became addicted to and then frustrated because it only worked in FF. Now I have this functionality virtually everywhere.

    This should be a built-in function in EVERY operating system- as part of the basic mouse driver functionality. Scroll bars are a WASTED effort. My favorite setting is Mix mode control type which enables instant access to either mode.

    3 notes:

    1. Undocumented added functionality in both FF and IE: If you set both the “Slow down on” and “disable on” to “Ctrl”, it changes the behavior of the Ctrl key while held down at same time as the DirectScroll (in any mode) to that of sequentially increasing or descreasing the font size. This is an unintended, but very cool feature to dynamically resize the font to any desired level in a single motion. (Please don’t “fix” this – I’m only mentioning it so others can benefit).

    2. An additional feature for this excellent utility would be a boolian option that allows the cursor to remain fixed on the page throughout the scrolling action. For trackballs, pens, and touchpads, there is really no need for the cursor to move during a scroll, as it only limits the length of a single stroke. For those of us using these devices, we have no need of ever releasing the activation button during long scrolls, since our mouse “pad” is essentially infinite. Without this option, we are forced to release the activation button (or re-click it for toggle mode) and then move the cursor back up to begin a new scrolling action. This causes needless repetitive actions. Mouse users may like it as well if their sensitivity is set very high. Please consider this as a configurable option. I thank you in advance (please email me if you are able to do it.)

    3. One last quirk (minor bug) which would be nice to iron out is that if you are in a text box control (like the one I’m writing in right now in FF), the effect of MouseImp Pro should not apply to outer “nested” scroll bars. That is – right now if I activate the program inside this text box, it will scroll to the top or bottom of the textarea and then when that limit is reached it will continue to scroll the outer scroll bar of the html page. The correct behavior should be to terminate behavior at the boundaries of the inner control. If outer control scrolling is desired, that should require additional triggering outside of the inner textarea box. A small but fairly important refinement.

    If you set up a donations link, I will gladly donate for your service to this project. Thanks again!

    Paka

  31. After a quick look at the source code, I can see that trying to implement a stationary cursor (2 above) would not be very feasible without a major overhaul to the code. Given that the hooks for scrolling are entirely based on tracking the relative differences of the actual cursor location (after the fact), trying to make the cursor appear stationary would probably result in some sort of jerky or blinking cursor behavior and result in too much overhead. The program is – after all – not a mouse driver.

    However, there is an easier way to get the same result as (2) and also accomplish (3) above (restraining the scroll to the innermost relevant scroll bar) at the same time. It would involve creation of a new “wraparound” routine which would simply snap the cursor to the other extreme bound of the currently active scroll area, upon reaching the opposite bound. For example: when scrolling down, the cursor would stop upon reaching the bottom of the scrollbar (accomplishing 3. above) and then immediately disappear and reappear back at the top of the same scrollable area. This would not affect the thumb behavior, but it would constrain the cursor to be within the scrollable area at all times while minimizing the jerky behavior to only once per full height traveled.

    A “wraparound” boolean configuration option would control the feature, which if “off” would simply stop any further cursor movement beyond the bounding box.

    Is anyone up to attempting to implement this? I don’t currently have the time or tools to do it.

  32. Paka,

    Thank you the extremely valuable input. I have the tools to do the job, and I can certainly add the option. However, as I don’t have much time to spend on the project, I would appreciate any help as to where and what code to add. If you could point me to exact location (e.g. function name) in the source code (MIPro.dll is the only one to modify), as well as approximately what to insert, I could try to do that.

  33. Man, this is awesome. I just upgraded to office 2007 and was disappointed Mouseimp didn’t work. I checked the site, saw the update, and I’m impressed. You did it again. This program is the best. I hate working on computers that don’t have it installed. Thank you!

  34. Great work ! I am so glad that this soft still exists, I use it for years and its the first thing I install on any machine.

    Thanks hundred times !!!

  35. Thanks for the great app ?
    I would like to have an option to disable the program in specific applications.
    If it is already there, please let me know how to use it.
    Thanks!

  36. I just found this great app. Big thanks to the authors.

    Unfortunately it doesn’t works fine wit Lingoes which is very nice software for instant translation over clicking mouse buttons.

    Seems like both apps interfere with each other mouse clicks management in a way that makes Lingoes unusable. :/

    I someone has decent workaround to this issue, please post solution in comment.

    thanks!

  37. This is very useful on my laptop. However, I can’t seem to get the auto-shrink stuff to work at all. No toolbars have been removed on the few apps I have tried. I set it for all apps and then tried for some specific apps like Firefox. Once or twice, the Firefox window shrank completely . . . looked great. But I have no idea how I did it and can’t seem to get that to work again, or work with any other program windows as well.

  39. I discovered a problem with left handed mice (right and left button switched in the mouse control panel) and activating the mouseimp scrolling using the ‘right’ mouse button (in this case – the logical right button, i.e. the left physical one ?
    Firefox – all versions starting by 2.0 – have the same problem: The mouseimp behaviour is the same as when the control type is set to toggle mode, the classic mode does not work any more.
    Not so in other apps, there its seems to be normal?
    Could you please check and supply a fix? Please, please, please ….

  40. I seem to be having a little problem with MouseImp Pro Live. Namely, it isn’t working anymore.

    I had been noticing that there was a problem with it and Firefox 3’s save dialogue, if I tried to use it to scroll through to find a place to save a file, it would crash Firefox, and then I couldn’t open anything with a double-click anymore until I restarted my computer. But it only happened some times, and not other times.

    Anyway, a few days after this happens, I start up my computer, do some things, and I try to scroll, and I notice that MouseImp isn’t working. All of a sudden it’s not working anywhere. I mean, it never worked in Open Office Writer, but now it doesn’t work anywhere else either. I tried reinstalling it, more than once, I think, and it still won’t work. I’d really like some help here, because MouseImp scrolling is habit by now. I can’t tell you how many times a day I try to scroll and only get the context menu.

  41. I can’t reproduce what Paka wrote on 6th may -point 1)
    (my versions: mouseImp PRO LIve 0.0.0.0 13 feb 2008, Firefox 3.0.1, IE7.5730.13)
    It would have been great!

    Thanks and Kudos to the developers, but… ?
    the obvious request now is could Mimp be hooked also to Google Chrome (and all webkit browsers btw)
    I noticed that Mimp actually _works_ for the scroll bar of the history box in GChrome (today version)

  42. Hi,
    The conflict with rocketdock seems to have resolved iteelf after restart.

    Btw an app i use called DM2 may have also been part of the bug.

    Thanks,

    Kaspar

  43. Hi,

    Congratulations for this *great* program.
    I don’t know why it hasn’t been _invented_ earlier.
    Please, keep working with it. I would gladly pay or donate.

    Just one thing: Horizontal Scroll doesn’t work well in Excel 2007 and nothing happens (vertical nor horizontal) in Chrome.

    Sincerely,

    Sp

  44. Perhaps no one noticed but there is an add on for firefox
    called ” Scrollbar Anywhere ” With it MouseImp scrolls
    both vertically and horizontally in Firefox.

    It is no longer available on Firefox but can be found at:

    http://pagesperso-orange.fr/marc.boullet/ext/extensions-en.html

    Or just Google the name.
    Richard

  45. The old version of Mouseimp Pro will scroll in both directions
    in Firefox ( 2 , 3 ) when combined with an add on called
    Scrollbar Anywhere. For Firefox 3 use Version 0.10.1

    Get it here: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/marc.boullet/ext/extensions-en.html

    Apparently the new version will not scroll horizontally even with
    Scrollbar Anywhere installed. You must use the older version of
    Mouseimp.

  46. Hi. Thanks for your job on continuing MouseImp development. But in the latest version AutoShrink feature doesn’t seem to work.
    I tried to use it on different computers and with different aplications. In vain. In previous versions it worked great. Please fix it. Thanks again.

  47. I am using the mouseimpro latest version. Great utility. But I am too having problems, that this doesn’t working with Safari(for windows) and Google Chrome. I think it has nothing with the webkit engine. If developers can make it working with google chrome, then it will be more than fruitfull. It will definitly boost the popularity of mouseimp as google is looking to promote chrome from the computer manufacturers side.

  48. There seems to be a conflict between MouseImp Pro and the tool FlashFolder which I’m developing.
    If MouseImp Pro is started after FlashFolder, it blocks the hook created by FlashFolder. If started in the opposite order, FlashFolder works well.
    In the source of MouseImp Pro I can see that CallNextHookEx() is commented out at the end of the CBT Hook function. I assume this is what causes FlashFolder (and propably other programs using the same hook) to be blocked.
    Could you enable CallNextHookEx() again so we can check if this is the root of the problem?

    Thanks

  49. It’s really a fantastic invention. I like it and put it when startup in my first see.

    Could it design a hotkey to activate or turn into sleep mode? Instead of clicking mouse on the icon in the toolbar. It will be more convenient.

  50. Wonderful app! I can live without horizontal scroll in Firefox, but please, is it possible to have OpenOffice Support?

  51. This is exactly what I’ve desperately wanted for a long time, but I’d dearly love to selectively disable it. The aforementioned Grab ‘n Drag extension for Firefox is a much smoother and more feature-rich solution. It’s not even possible to match the quality and comfort of that in other places, especially where there’s no smooth scrolling, and it’s not even really needed with less-rich content or the unlikliness of /long/ scrollable areas.

    MouseImp is perfectly adequate for my favorite text editor, file browser windows, etc. but I’m not willing to sacrifice Grab ‘n Drag for it.

    The “AutoShrink” feature can already effectively identify Firefox windows for exclusion. What are the chances of getting an option tab that reuses that functionality to selectively stop it from interfering with specific programs?

  53. Mouseimp stopped working for me on firefox just after the latest windows update. (win xp). I had it working with firefox for the last 2 months. This will probably require a small fix to the code.

  55. Supporting x64 would not, unfortunately, be a simple update. A major rewrite is required. I don’t have the required skills to do this. The source code is old, and hardly portable.

  56. Hey guys,

    For x64, I found Scroll Navigator. Thing is, it costs money and is not as fluid and smooth as mouse imp pro. Good work aoleg! And thanks for having looked into a port. I guess someone else will have to implement or we just wait for something else to come out. Man, such a great tool.

  57. Let me add a link to Scroll Navigator: http://www.desksoft.com/ScrollNavigator.htm

    If I decide to upgrade to an x64 system, this will be the first thing I’ll use.

  58. ScrollNavigator does not do it for me on Win7-x64.
    Either choppy scrolling or nothing at all.

    MouseStar might work better for some of you, but is unfortunately not as straight as mouseimp was, so again no options until now.. o(

    regards,
    rob.

  60. If I get this correct MImp must be “hooked” to an application to work? The middle mouse scroll in OpenOffice really sucks, do you think MImp could be hooked on that, too?

    Opera 10.x also does not work…another wish ?

  63. @McIver
    You could abuse the “speed up” mode to slow down scrolling.
    There is a setting for which button to hold to enable faster scrolling, furthermore there is a value to set.. change it from 130% (default i guess) to something like 50%.

    I’m still in deep pain without MI on my Win7 x64.. o(((

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