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If you are a user of AeroZoom , the magnifier-enhancing application for Windows, you might have noticed there is an option to display a random tip during startup of AeroZoom. To make it easier to refer to the tips, t his post lists all of the 100 tips stored in AeroZoom for its 'Startup Tips' functionality. So, here it goes! New to AeroZoom? To get started, hold [Left] mouse button and wheel up to zoom. While zoomed, press and hold the middle button to preview full screen or reset zoom level. Press [Left] and [Middle] to reset zoom. Press [Left] and [Right] to show/hide AeroZoom Panel. Read 'Quick Instructions' via the help (?) menu for more controls. Mac users are used to zoom with the hotkeys Command+[+] and Command+[-]. AeroZoom makes such combination possible on Windows. Press [Left] and [Right] to launch AeroZoom Panel and select one of the other modifiers (e.g. Alt, Ctrl) and see which one works best for you! For some users, 'Alt' seems to wor...

The next version of AeroZoom (5.0) will be available after the testing phase, which involves my testing as well as yours – help improve quality by becoming a beta tester. Email [email protected] if interested. (Thanks!) Welcome to support this project by buying a cup of coffee if my work is useful to you. That would be much appreciated. Thank you! Last updated: 24 Sep 2019 AeroZoom 5.0 Features (TBC) Hide Magnifier Glass The ability to completely hide Magnifier glass (i.e. Windows Magnifier) is back for Windows 10 starting from 1607 and up (Note: This feature was available for Windows 7 only) Smart Click Disabler Optimized single-handed mouse zooming, thanks to an improved mechanism to prevent misfire of left/right/forward/back clicks while zooming, available as a tool under AeroZoom Panel menu as Smart Click Disabler, which is better than the existing Misclick-Preventing Pad Enables use of AeroZoom during full-screen PowerPoint presentation, etc. User-...

Supposed there is a portable Windows application without an installer and uninstaller, how to create them back? In today's post, we will explore one way to build a  Setup.exe  using AutoHotkey (AHK), with additional compression of 7-Zip applied to the  Setup.exe  and remaining files of the portable application for maximum compression, and then wrap it with an outer unattended installer, turning a portable application into an installable one while being suitable also for silent deployment. The application example, i.e. the application for which a setup is created is  AeroZoom . While some terminologies are specific to AeroZoom, the general concepts should apply to other software. // ⭐1️⃣ to be built: outer unattended installer written in AHK AeroZoom_Unattended_Installer.exe │ │ // 2️⃣ to be built: 7-Zip self-extracting archive │ └───AeroZoom_7-Zip_SFX.exe │ ├───AeroZoom // portable app example │ ...

For a more updated AeroZoom article, please refer to this rewritten introductory article of AeroZoom instead. AeroZoom, poor man's presentation mouse AeroZoom panel, called by mouse AeroZoom is an AutoHotKey program that enhances upon the Magnifier in Windows to turn any mouse into a presentation mouse, where zooming in/out and moving around becomes a breeze without a keyboard. Note: This article only covers the original AeroZoom version 1. List of Features Binding keyboard controls commonly used in a presentation to mouse buttons and 'AeroZoom panel' buttons (on the right). Zooming in/out or reset any time without a keyboard; handle more operations with one hand. AeroZoom panel is made of large buttons designed to quickly toggle sub-magnifier settings (It only needs 1 click while Magnifier needs 3 for those settings.) or to add more functionalities. Upon calling by mouse buttons, it pops up where the cursor is, witho...