How to keep mouse wheel settings (windows resets them)

[405 TD Estate]

I want to have my mouse scroll 8 lines at a time. I can do this by
going to control panel - mouse - wheel and selecting 8 lines at a time.


However the next time I start my laptop it is back to 1 again. Very
annoying . I can't see any settings for the mouse wheel in regedit so
perhaps it is not stored there?

Ian

 

[Jon]

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I want to have my mouse scroll 8 lines at a time. I can do this by
going to control panel - mouse - wheel and selecting 8 lines at a time.


However the next time I start my laptop it is back to 1 again. Very
annoying . I can't see any settings for the mouse wheel in regedit so
perhaps it is not stored there?

Ian

The setting is stored in

"WheelScrollLines"

at

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop

So you could try forcing it with a startup shortcut

eg pasting these 2 lines (watch out for word wrap - 2 lines only) into
notepad, saving with a .vbs extension, and putting a shortcut to it in your
startup folder

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.RegWrite "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control
Panel\Desktop\WheelScrollLines",8, "REG_SZ"


The registry change may or may not be sufficient though. You'd have to test
it.