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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Subject: Re: Another tale of Windows idiocy: the mouse scroll wheel.
Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 13:35:54 -0700
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On 2024-05-06 22:04, Danart wrote:
> 
>   > 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!
> 
> Just buy a wireless mouse +
> keyboard combo like the ones from logitech and so many other choices.

So just buy a product to get around an obvious and idiotic shortcoming 
in Windows.

Got it.