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

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.