Windows 2000 Wheel mouse: scroll 1 line instead of 3?

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Robbie Hatley

I'm running Windows 2000 and using a 2-buttons-&-wheel USB
optical mouse. I'm noticing that in every program I've
tried so far, the wheel causes text to scroll vertically
in 3-line increments. I'd really prefer 1-line increments.
Is there any way to change this globally, in Windows 2000
settings? Or is this a thing which is controlled by
each individual program? (If the latter, I'm annoyed,
because I have yet to see a program that offers user
control over this.)

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Robbie Hatley
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Did you take a look at the Mouse options in the Control Panel?

John

Robbie Hatley wrote:

> I'm running Windows 2000 and using a 2-buttons-&-wheel USB
> optical mouse. I'm noticing that in every program I've
> tried so far, the wheel causes text to scroll vertically
> in 3-line increments. I'd really prefer 1-line increments.
> Is there any way to change this globally, in Windows 2000
> settings? Or is this a thing which is controlled by
> each individual program? (If the latter, I'm annoyed,
> because I have yet to see a program that offers user
> control over this.)
>
 
"John John (MVP)" wrote:

> Did you take a look [for wheel settings] at the Mouse options
> in the Control Panel?

Yes, that's the first place I looked. But here are no controls
in Mouse Properties for the wheel. There's button configuration,
single/double click to open, double-click speed, pointer selection,
pointer movement speed, acceleration, etc... but nothing for the
scroll wheel.

That's why I was wondering if there's some setting somewhere
else in Windows 2000 for mouse scroll wheel increment.
("Scroll Increment: 1|2|3|4|5 lines" or something like that.)

(Seems to make sense that such a control, if existent, would
be on the "Mouse Properties" panel, yes... but I've learned
that quite often, controls in Win2K aren't where I expect
them to be.)

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Cheers,
Robbie Hatley
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Robbie Hatley wrote:

> "John John (MVP)" wrote:
>
>
>>Did you take a look [for wheel settings] at the Mouse options
>>in the Control Panel?
>
>
> Yes, that's the first place I looked. But here are no controls
> in Mouse Properties for the wheel. There's button configuration,
> single/double click to open, double-click speed, pointer selection,
> pointer movement speed, acceleration, etc... but nothing for the
> scroll wheel.

Maybe you should see if newer drivers are available for your mouse.

Otherwise you can try via the registry at:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WheelScrollLines

John
 
"John John (MVP)" wrote:

> Maybe you should see if newer drivers are available for your mouse.

It's a Microsoft mouse, and didn't come w. any drivers, because
my Microsoft operating system is supposed to already have them.
Nor do I intend to spend the next 93 hours of my life wading
through the enormous microsoft.com website looking for drivers
which probably don't exists anyway (except as a builtin part of
Windows 2000).

> Otherwise you can try via the registry at:
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WheelScrollLines

Ah-HA!!! Note what I said in my last post about "settings not
where I expect them". I certainly would never have thought to
look in HKCU/Control Panel/Desktop. How counter-intuitive!
This has nothing to do with the desktop!

Let's see if that setting exists....

Yes, and it's set to "3"... which explains why my wheel
advances text 3 lines instead of 1. :-) Lets try setting
that to 1.... No change. Ok, let's try restarting
windows.... I'm saving this as a draft... Restarting...

YES! Text now scrolls 1 line in all programs, instead of 3.
Excellent!

Thanks for the tip!

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Cheers,
Robbie Hatley
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Robbie Hatley wrote:

> "John John (MVP)" wrote:
>
>
>>Maybe you should see if newer drivers are available for your mouse.
>
>
> It's a Microsoft mouse, and didn't come w. any drivers, because
> my Microsoft operating system is supposed to already have them.
> Nor do I intend to spend the next 93 hours of my life wading
> through the enormous microsoft.com website looking for drivers
> which probably don't exists anyway (except as a builtin part of
> Windows 2000).

It took about 30 seconds to find from a Yahoo! search. Drivers are
avalable for W95 onwards:

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/Download.mspx


> Thanks for the tip!

You're welcome.

John
 
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