Scrolling is one of the important actions that we do while using a computer, Scroll is the act of moving the visual portions of a Window up, down, left, or right. There are two types of scrolling in computers, one is horizontal and the other one is vertical scrolling. Scrolling can occur one line at a time or one page at a time, it depends on the mouse settings. Mostly we’ll use the mouse wheel or touchpad to do scrolling, by default in Windows the scroll action is direct, for example, to move the page up just scroll up, to move the page down scroll down. If you want the scrolling to be reverse like Mac, follow the below-mentioned steps. This article will guide you to Reverse Touchpad scrolling in Windows 11.
Reverse Touchpad scrolling in Windows 11:
Windows 10/11 allows you to reverse the scrolling using the Windows Settings. Follow the steps below to Reverse the Touchpad scrolling in Windows 11.
Method 1: Using Windows Settings:
Open Windows Setting by pressing Windows + I and from the left-hand side click on Bluetooth & devices.
Under Bluetooth & devices, click on Touchpad.
Under the Touchpad setting, below the Gestures & interaction section click on Scroll & zoom drop-down menu and Change the Scrolling direction to Down motion scrolls down.
This will reverse the touchpad scrolling.
Note: The Touchpad gestures will be different depending on your laptop manufactured, For example, in dell laptop, you need to use two fingers to scroll up or down.
Method 2: Using Registry Editor:
Before proceeding with this method, first, you need to get the Touchpad device ID. Open Device Manager. Open the Run command by pressing Windows + R and type devmgmt.msc and hit enter, this command will open the Device Management console.
In Device Manager, expand the Mice and other Pointing devices. Next right click on the HID-Complaint Mouse and choose Properties. In some laptops, you can see the HID-Touchpad, if you are not able to see the touchpad then follow the steps for all the HID-Compliant mouse.
Note: In Some laptops you can see the same name for Mouse and touchpad, to find out the touchpad, just right-click on the Device drivers and choose properties, and look for I2C HID Device on the General tab.
Then click on the Details tab and under the Property section click on the drop-down menu and choose Device instance path. Note down the value, Take a screenshot or just keep the properties window open.
Follow the below steps to change the registry value.
Open the Run command by pressing Windows + R and type Regedit and hit enter, this command will open the Registry editor console.
Now navigate to the following Registry path.
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\HID\
From the left-hand side expand the HID registry key and navigate to the exact Device ID, which you got from the device manager properties window.
Once you navigated to the registry path, then Click on the Device Parameters registry key, and from the right-hand side double click on the FlipFlopWheel DWORD and set the value to 1, and click on OK.
Next, close the Registry Editor and restart the system once. This will reverse the touchpad scrolling.
