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Natural Scroll Direction on Windows

How to reverse scroll direction on Windows so that it matches macOS's "natural" scrolling.

  1. Open Device Manager.
  2. Open the Mice and other pointing devices branch.
  3. Right-click the active mouse and select Properties > Details > Property > Device instance path.
  4. Copy / paste the "VID ID" value somewhere so you can refer to it again (for example, VID_0E0F&PID_0003&MI_01).
  5. Open regedit.
  6. Open path:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\HID
  7. Open the key that matches the "VID ID" of the mouse from earlier.
  8. Expand the subkey > "Device Parameters"
  9. Set the FlipFlopWheel DWORD to 1.