Wheel mouse: scroll 1 line instead of 3?

[Guest 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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Curious,

Robbie Hatley

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[Guest John John (MVP)]

Re: Wheel mouse: scroll 1 line instead of 3?

 

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.)

>

[Guest Robbie Hatley]

Re: Wheel mouse: scroll 1 line instead of 3?

 

"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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Robbie Hatley

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[Guest John John (MVP)]

Re: Wheel mouse: scroll 1 line instead of 3?

 

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

[Guest Robbie Hatley]

Re: Wheel mouse: scroll 1 line instead of 3?

 

 

"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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Robbie Hatley

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[Guest John John (MVP)]

Re: Wheel mouse: scroll 1 line instead of 3?

 

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