Reverse Mouse Wheel scroll in Windows 11 (Natural Mode like MacOS)

win11-mouse-scroll-reverse.md

Reverse Mouse Wheel scroll in Windows 11

Chose between natural mode like MacOS or Windows default mode.

Step 1: Open Windows PowerShell in Administrator Mode.

You can do this by going to Start Menu, type PowerShell, and click Run as Administrator.

Step 2: Copy the following code and paste it in the command line of Windows PowerShell:

$mode = Read-host "How do you like your mouse scroll (0 or 1)?"; Get-PnpDevice -Class Mouse -PresentOnly -Status OK | ForEach-Object { "$($_.Name): $($_.DeviceID)"; Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\$($_.DeviceID)\Device Parameters" -Name FlipFlopWheel -Value $mode; "+--- Value of FlipFlopWheel is set to " + (Get-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\$($_.DeviceID)\Device Parameters").FlipFlopWheel + "`n" }

The code above is one-liner PowerShell script. Copy-paste it as-is.

Step 3: It will ask how do you like your mouse to scroll.

Downward wheel motion makes the page...

0 - Move up so you see contents below (Default Mode, Windows behavior)

1 - Move down so you can see contents above (Natural Mode, Mac behavior, reverse mode)

Type the number that corresponds to your scroll preference.

Step 4: Restart your computer.

Your settings will take effect after you restart.

Step 5 (optional)

Give yourself a favor and buy a Mac.

Info

Source: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/reverse-mouse-wheel-scroll/657c4537-f346-4b8b-99f8-9e1f52cd94c2

It works great, but when you scroll left and right, it's still in standard direction and not natural mode.
Do you know if there's a way I can change this?
Thanks

Just found this https://github.com/jamie-pate/flipflop-windows-wheel/blob/master/bin/Debug/FlipWheel.exe

Just found this https://github.com/jamie-pate/flipflop-windows-wheel/blob/master/bin/Debug/FlipWheel.exe

So funny to see that someone, as of today, was also bothered by this problem LOL

Knew a one-liner had to exist! Thanks :)

Legendary! Why on earth isn't this a setting though? If it wasn't for games...

Aaaaah, thank you very much. You made my life better 😄

Bro you rock ! much appreciated !

THANK YOU!!!

Thank you very much friend, now I want to change some things on my keyboard to make it the same as Apple.starting with copy and paste.

I use something similar and used the same source.

But I also wanted a way to be selective on which mouse I wanted to change. So I came up with the following script which relies on you unplugging the mouse. So it can compare and see which ones you want to modify.

https://gist.github.com/cgorshing/f89406ff2cc4ffd68d5138ac80e80d0a

This is brilliant, thanks.

Thanks for saving us from the long registry hassle... it works on Windows 10 too.

FYI... As of Windows 11 24H2 there is now a native setting in the mouse control panel to do this... Finally!