Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy Subject: Re: Another tale of Windows idiocy: the mouse scroll wheel. Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 16:01:00 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 63 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2024 20:01:01 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="cc5779952ce7c6dc15dbee5d94eb4636"; logging-data="3129597"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+A8DKq4iXVFm3aTCOQfd28CIVabQBPGf8=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:nRwVoW9sj/X+ABnYkdLVtrOI610= Content-Language: en-CA In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3559 On 2024-04-06 19:34, -hh wrote: > On 4/2/24 11:20 AM, candycanearter07 wrote: >> David Brooks wrote at 08:27 this Tuesday >> (GMT): >>> 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. >> ... >> >> No way...that's actually insane. Even something as restricted as >> ChromeOS provides that option in the settings. > > There's invariably going to be elements of any UI that aren't changeable > (see car steering wheel for which way it turns), but within computer > software there's far fewer actual physical restrictions. > > Overall, it is a "less freedom", but it also seems  likely that MS paid > attention to how few users actually chose to invert the control of the > wheel.  Wonder if anyone actually has user UI statistics on that? If MS paid attention how many people inverted a control they can only invert on Windows, H? Would that be a little bit like paying attention to the number of users that used a mouse back when MS-DOS had no support for one? :-)