Is there a way to disable Ctrl + Mousewheel zooming on the Windows 10 Desktop?

Question

I play a lot of games (windowed-fullscreen mode with dual monitors) and constantly have my desktop randomly zooming/unzooming from the Ctrl + Mousewheel zoom functionality. 

I found how to disable it on a tablet (via pinching) but nothing but unanswered questions for desktop.  Any help?

Answer 1

Hi Draelon

The easiest way to accomplish this is via a powershell script

To do this please open a new NotePad text document

Copy and paste the following into the text doc

#MaxHotkeysPerInterval 500

^WheelDown::return

^WheelUp::return

On the File menu, click Save As. The Save As dialog box will appear.

In the File name box, enter mousezoom.ps1

Click Save.

Now double-click on the the saved script and it will execute. This will disable the ctrl+ mouse wheel zoom in all of Windows.

Answer 2

I hope this helps. Please let me know if you need anything else.

Answer 3

I can't see if there's an error code or not (because the window closes so fast), but after the power shell window opened, it's still allowing me to Ctrl + Mousewheel zoom.