Get OS X Lion’s “natural” scrolling in Windows
Posted: August 5, 2011 Filed under: Windows | Tags: natural scrolling, windows 16 Comments »Long story short, download this, run it and you should be experiencing natural scrolling in its full glory.
If you like it, feel free to stick it in your Startup folder. If you don’t, feel free to press the Delete key. If you don’t feel like running some random .exe, get the AutoHotKey script from here and make your own.
You can also get this behaviour in Linux. Here’s a blog post on that.
P.S.: If you’re worried about my .exe gobbling up your precious system resources, you might want to know that it only eats up 272 kilobytes of RAM on my Vista machine.
Awesome utility. Thanks man.
Wow, always looked for that program!
I use Windows 8 Pro, and noticed only one error while using Internet Explorer, in moving the scroll bar below. Much remains, but very little to be perfect!
Thank you and congratulations!
is there a way to get the scroll effect where the window continues to scroll on based on the speed you spun the scroll wheel, like the mac using the trackpad
Works on Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Yay!
Yes it does, I’m using it on my Windows 8 machine. It fails from time to time though, and has to be “restarted” manually. And it doesn’t work in things like Task Manager.
I think Mooga’s problem was due to a logitech mouse with freewheel scrolling. srry bout the bump, but i know people are still migrating to natural scroll
you are a legend
thanks for saving my brain power for more important tasks than scrolling one way at home and another at work!
cool, only problem doesnt work with syn touchpad scrolling
I believe (some version of) Synaptic’s touchpad utility has a reverse scrolling option.
Does this work on Windows 7 64 bit?
Well, it should work. AFAIK AutoHotkey is cross-architecture.
Keeps interrupting with Hot keys per interval. What gives?
Dunno. Slow computer? Try installing AHK and creating the script as described here.
I’m having the same issue – logitech mouse seems to be causing too many “hotkeys per interval” can you up the number in your script?
It’s AutoHotKey’s fault. I don’t even think you can avoid those errors. Besides, I don’t have a Logitech mouse to test it, and my Windows machine is dead anyway, so if you want a fix you’ll have to find it yourself.
Fix is simple – is there any way that I can edit your .exe?