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Reverse the touchpad scrolling direction on the touch cover

Anonymous
2012-11-05T18:53:21+00:00

The mouse on the touch cover stupidly scrolls the wrong way. This is annoying, confusing, and unintuitive. I know apple started this trend, but I'm disappointed to see Microsoft copy this idiotic change. Even worse, I can't find a way to reverse it back to the normal scroll direction. Has anyone figured this out?

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-11-29T22:08:27+00:00

    Martin - nice job!

    I got the Trackpad Settings app to work. Here's how:

    First make sure you have the latest updates:

    From the Start screen, type Update, tap Settings, then tap Check for updates.

    Then....

    1. Open the Search charm, tap Settings, then type Devices and Printers.
    2. Tap Devices and Printers in the search results.
    3. Tap Refresh (circular arrow) up on the title bar - until the Surface icon looks like Surface.

    Now open the Trackpad Settings app and see if it works.

    Hope this helps,

    Kate

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-11-06T09:11:57+00:00

    The Touch Cover track pad uses a generic USB mouse driver, for this sort of functionality to be built in they'd have to write a specific hardware driver for the trackpad... which I believe they will since many people would like to be able to disable the trackpad when a mouse is present, like with Synaptics track pad device drivers.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-11-21T04:08:26+00:00

    How completely bizarre that they would reverse the trackpad scrolling just for this o/s.

    Is someone in Redmond having a laugh?  What possible reason could there be for such a 180?

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-11-29T00:37:41+00:00

    I found a Trackpad Settings app in the Windows Store today - however, unfortunately it doesn't work just yet. Maybe an update will get it working...

    Kate

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-11-29T02:34:25+00:00

    Encouraging that they're going to be giving us a way to fix this...

    Unfortunate, but typical that they released it without testing it.

    Seriously... did they fire all their testers? Soooo many non-working or barely functioning pieces of software here... It's like they want people to think they suck at Quality Control.

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