Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: David Brooks Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Another tale of Windows idiocy: the mouse scroll wheel. Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 09:27:56 +0100 Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net ei0+OT+NoQkLeJfixa/ADg7UNgSDlBn5pjyal03qU1h8D7+zLT Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y3gJjv/u7r1kFNRZ70OOyxxyyOM= sha256:oKHCCR3v6Z3fgNKKyBqi5YdFKYzWg2N0qgsx+uoQI+A= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2248 On 02/04/2024 01:45, Alan wrote: > I'm sitting here, forced to use a Windows desktop (and I'm remembering > all over how terribly UGLY Windows is) while I wait for migration to > complete on my new M3 MacBook Air, and I thought I would reverse the > scrolling direction on the mouse to be more like what I'm used to. > > Now, honestly, I'm quite adaptable as I work with lots of different > systems, and have to simply roll with whatever my client at any moment > uses, but... > > ...I assumed this would be an obvious control to have somewhere in the > broken mess that is Settings and Control Panel mouse settings. > > I opened Settings... > > ...checked the various things you change about the mouse there... > > ...and... ...nothing. Nothing useful to this case anyway. > > Then I remembered that Microsoft's settings for the mouse are > idiotically broken across two different interfaces, so I checked Control > Panel... > > ...and still nothing. > > So I check online and would you look at that: > > The only solution to changing the scrolling direction of the mouse in > Windows is... > > ...TO CHANGE THE REGISTRY! I found this - it confirms what you claim! https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/reverse-mouse-wheel-scroll/657c4537-f346-4b8b-99f8-9e1f52cd94c2 It also provides a solution. = Is you M3 MacBook Air now 'up and running'?