Boot Camp: Change Touchpad Scrolling Direction

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Boot Camp: Change Touchpad Scrolling Direction

How do you change the touchpad vertical scrolling direction when running windows under bootcamp (on a MacBook Pro running Yosemite) so that the scrolling direction is the same as under Mac OS?

I first checked in the Boot Camp Control Panel...there are other touchpad settings there but none to change the scroll direction.

I next tried to find the Touchpad under settings. There is a setting, under Windows 10, for a mouse but non specifically for the touchpad. Also two "HID compliant mouse", show up in the device manager but there doesn't seem to be a way to change any touchpad setting there either. On other windows laptops I've had in the past, there's usually a tab under the Mouse settings for changing the touchpad settings but under Boot Camp the touchpad doesn't seem to be fully recognized/supported?

Thanks,

Dave

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Sep 1, 2015 6:57 PM

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therealspenny

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Dec 20, 2017 2:37 PM in response to DaveAZ

There is a registry setting named FlipFlopWheel that does exactly this and can be found after typing regedit in Run and pressing enter which will launch Registry Editor.

Then search for keyword FlipFlopWheel.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\HID\VID_???\VID_???\Device Parameters.

The search will find multiple mouse entries. The default value for FlipFlopWheel will be 0 and needs to change to 1.

After the change reboot in order to take effect.

To get the VID_??? number you need to:

Go to the Control Panel and then go to Mouse, click the Hardware tab, then click Properties.

In HID-compliant mouse Properties window click the Details tab and select the Device Instance Path property.

The registry path is in there!

Then to make scrolling smoother go to the Control Panel and then go to Mouse, click the Wheel tab, then change "the following number of lines at a time" to 1.

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