Re: Another tale of Windows idiocy: the mouse scroll wheel.

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.