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I like natural scroll so much I even use AutoHotkey on Windows to emulate the same behavior. Unfortunately, it reverses everything, so, say, volume scroll is reversed too. I'm sure there are workarounds about that.

Unlike some comments here, when I move from TrackPad to mouse, I still think of the scroll wheel as the document, so natural scroll makes more sense for me, personally.

The only thing I would get rid of in TrackPad is the "bounce effect" when you reach the Home/End of the document. Also, many documents are perfectly fit in the app window (e.g. Preview) but still the horizontal scroll moves them around, which is annoying (try opening a new PDF in Preview and use left/right arrow keys to move to next page; it scrolls the document horizontally slightly!)



You can actually change the scroll direction of a mouse in Windows with a registry edit: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10...


Thank you, yes I tried that and it works.


Same here, I've got this one-liner in my system config:

Inverse or reverse mouse wheel (natural scrolling), reboot or unplug the mouse. Must be run in an admin powershell console.

Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\HID\\\Device` Parameters FlipFlopWheel -EA 0 | ForEach-Object { Set-ItemProperty $_.PSPath FlipFlopWheel 1 }


I used to use this, but I found that it sometimes got disabled when I unplugged and replugged my mouse (and always if I later got a new mouse). I eventually gave up.




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