Natural - reverse scrolling in Windows 7
Being an IOS, OSX and a Windows 7 user i must say that the "Natural" scrolling that comes with the Mac seems to feel actually quite natural to me.
So i would like to have that same experience on all platforms.
After doing some searching i stumbled upon a program called x-mouse button control by Highresolution Enterprises. This little utility does a lot when it comes to tweaking your mouse. And it also has the feature to reverse the direction of the scroll wheel.
I used it for some time and was really happy with it. But then the next thing came up.
On my windows 7 portable i am running OSX Lion in an virtual machine. Inside this machine the mouse wheel would not scroll at all because of the x-mouse utility. When i turned the wheel you can feel the page go up but immediately it scrolls down the same amount of pixels. Changing the direction setting inside OSX did not seem to resolve the problem.
Sure, you can use the hotkey settings in x-mouse to switch off its behavior but that is a hassle.
Than i read a blogpost by Vоlkеr Vоеcking. He has another approach to this and advises to go into the registry and change the flipflopwheel parameter of your mouse.
So i would like to have that same experience on all platforms.
After doing some searching i stumbled upon a program called x-mouse button control by Highresolution Enterprises. This little utility does a lot when it comes to tweaking your mouse. And it also has the feature to reverse the direction of the scroll wheel.
I used it for some time and was really happy with it. But then the next thing came up.
On my windows 7 portable i am running OSX Lion in an virtual machine. Inside this machine the mouse wheel would not scroll at all because of the x-mouse utility. When i turned the wheel you can feel the page go up but immediately it scrolls down the same amount of pixels. Changing the direction setting inside OSX did not seem to resolve the problem.
Sure, you can use the hotkey settings in x-mouse to switch off its behavior but that is a hassle.
Another (minor) disadvantage is that the x-mouse tool makes the movement of the mouse wheel feeling not as smooth as i am used to in OSX. This is of course because the movement of the scroll wheel that is detected by windows is altered by x-mouse afterwards.
Than i read a blogpost by Vоlkеr Vоеcking. He has another approach to this and advises to go into the registry and change the flipflopwheel parameter of your mouse.
After doing that (and disabling the x-mouse tweaking tool) it seemed to work perfectly.
You can find his blogpost here.
I have to say that x-mouse is a great tool if you want to tweak around with your mouse. It really does a lot of neat things. But if you are only interested in the changing direction of the scroll wheel you best go with Volkers tip.
You can find his blogpost here.
I have to say that x-mouse is a great tool if you want to tweak around with your mouse. It really does a lot of neat things. But if you are only interested in the changing direction of the scroll wheel you best go with Volkers tip.
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