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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: Another tale of Windows idiocy: the mouse scroll wheel.
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 16:01:00 -0400
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On 2024-04-06 19:34, -hh wrote:
> On 4/2/24 11:20 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>> 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.
>> ...
>>
>> 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?

:-)