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From: Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Another tale of Windows idiocy: the mouse scroll wheel.
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 10:34:03 -0400
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On 6/1/2024 6:41 PM, Alan wrote:
> On 2024-06-01 07:36, Mike Holiday wrote:
>> On May 7, 2024 at 16:35:54 EDT, "Alan" <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> To be fair, you have to buy products (apps) to make macOS behave like 
>> a sane
>> desktop as well.
> 
> Give me an example of an inconsistency or idiocy as large as needing to 
> use the registry to change the direction the mouse wheel scrolls.

Guess who is back?Alan has never learned that Windows supports a very 
wide variety of hardware, and much of that hardware has it's independent 
settings. My Logitech wireless mouse has it's own settings panel, 
Logitech Options. Open that, click on the mouse, Point and Scroll, 
Scroll Wheel Direction and you can change it.