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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Subject: Re: Another tale of Windows idiocy: the mouse scroll wheel.
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 15:20:13 -0000 (UTC)
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David Brooks <applefanboy@btinternet.com> 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.
>
>=
>
> Is you M3 MacBook Air now 'up and running'?


No way...that's actually insane. Even something as restricted as
ChromeOS provides that option in the settings.
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