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    Natural (reverse) scrolling with Alps touchpad on Inspiron 17R SE 7720.

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by stevedensmore, Oct 2, 2013.

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    I prefer natural scrolling (reverse), and by modifying pointing devices through the system registry, you're able to do so quite easily by changing the value of "flipflopwheel" to 1 from 0. The touchpad refused to acknowledge this change on the previous load, but for some reason started working out of nowhere. I'm not having as much luck this time around on the freshly loaded Windows 7 put on a new Samsung 840 Pro 256GB last night. Anyone know how to force this change? It's supposed to activate when to connect and reconnect the device, but there's no way to do that with the touchpad (to my knowledge). I've tried enabling and disabling the touchpad with the function key, but that didn't work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
     
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    *solved*

    Go to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Alps\Apoint" in the system registry, create a new DWORD named "InvertScrollFlag", and set it to 3 for inverted scrolling, or 0 for normal scrolling. The setting will apply after restarting, or logging out and back in.
     
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