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Wheel Mouse Insanity!

Relates to Registry Hacks and Security

I spent several hours the other night test-driving firewalls to decide on a replacement for BitDefender. Following numerous installs, uninstalls and registry sweeps I finally settled on Sygate PFW being the only one that does not seem to be causing system freezes or any other conflicts - starting to wonder if this PC needs a serious clean out!

So with job done, I was about to settle down to some coding only to discover that the wheel on my logitech mouse was no longer scrolling vertically in any application. Well, I knew it wasn't broken since scrolling worked fine in input boxes. The next few hours were spent trawling Groups, reinstalling drivers and rolling back registry keys to try and repair the error. At the point of insanity, I stumbled across an entry in the Windows Registry Guide.

1. Navigate to HOT_KEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
2. Reset the string value for WheelScrollLines which had inadvertantly been changed to 0

It is alarming how dependant I have become on the mouse wheel - perhaps I need to try unplugging the mouse completely for a few days.

Posted on Saturday, Nov 13, 2004 at 14:53:15.