This tutorial will show you how to change the number of characters to scroll horizontally at a time for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
If your mouse has a wheel that supports horizontal scrolling, under Horizontal Scrolling, you can change the number of characters you want to scroll horizontally when you tilt the wheel to the left or right.
You can perform any of the following actions to scroll horizontally with your mouse:
- Press and hold the Shift while scrolling up (scroll left) and down (scroll right) with the mouse scroll wheel.
- Press the middle mouse button once to see a circle with two arrows inside pointing left and right, and move your mouse pointer left and/or right.
- In a scrollable window, tilt the wheel (if supported by mouse) to the left to scroll left, and to the right to scroll right.
Contents
- Option One: Change Mouse Horizontal Scrolling Setting in Mouse Properties
- Option Two: Change Mouse Horizontal Scrolling Setting in Registry Editor
1 Open the Control Panel (icons view), and click/tap on the Mouse icon.
2 Click/tap on the Wheel tab. (see screenshot below)
3 Select or enter a number between 1 to 100 for the number of Horizontal Scrolling characters at a time you want.
The default number of horizontal scrolling characters is 3 at a time.
4 Click/tap on OK.
1 Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe).
2 Navigate to the key below in the left pane of Registry Editor. (see screenshot below)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop3 In the right pane of the Desktop key, double click/tap on the WheelScrollChars string value (REG_SZ) to modify it. (see screenshot above)
4 Type a number between 1 to 100 for the number of horizontal scrolling characters at a time you want, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)
The default number of horizontal scrolling characters is 3 at a time.
5 Close Registry Editor.
6 Either sign out and sign in or restart the computer to apply.
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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