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From: -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
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Subject: Re: Another tale of Windows idiocy: the mouse scroll wheel.
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 19:07:03 -0400
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On 4/7/24 4:01 PM, Alan wrote:
> 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?

I think it really comes down to how many MS software developers actually 
want that feature for themselves, such that they'll DIY it (or put in 
the change request, etc).


> 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?
> 
> :-)
> 

More like how Apple's Disk Utility abolished its ability to support RAID 
in one of the OSX updates ... and then was surprised that their 
tech-savvy customers screamed.

-hh