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Magic Mouse 2 Scrolling Enable on Windows 10 and Windows 11

General Notes

  • There are a couple paid programs out there that will get scrolling working for your magic mouse. The most popular one asks you to buy a subscription license. No thanks.
  • There are some tutorials that suggest downloading Apple BootCamp drivers from the Apple support site. This will not work for the Magic Mouse 2.

Steps

  1. Install 7-Zip.
  2. Download Brigadier from GitHub.
  3. Extract brigadier.exe from the ZIP archive.
  4. Press the Windows key and type Command Prompt, then run it.
  5. Navigate to the folder where Brigadier was extracted:
    • If you downloaded brigadier to your "Downloads" folder you may type: cd %USERPROFILE%\Downloads
    • Press <enter>
    • If brigadier downloaded to a different path, you will need to use that instead.
  6. Run Brigadier:
    • Type: brigadier.exe -m MacBookPro14,1
    • Press <enter>
  7. Brigadier will now download the Bootcamp support software from Apple. The entire thing can take 5 minutes.
  8. Now, in Explorer, navigate to the folder where the support software was downloaded to. It should be in the same folder as Brigadier.
  9. Run BootCamp-041-89042\BootCamp\Drivers\Apple\AppleWirelessMouse64.exe
  10. Done!

This method is not the same as downloading the BootCamp support software directly from the Apple Support website. If you do that, scrolling will only work with the Magic Mouse 1.

References

The "Easiest solution" provides an easy way to download the software you need to run in step 9, allowing you to skip all other steps. It is usually best to get the software from the source, however.

##How to reverse Mouse and Touchpads scrolling direction in Windows 11/10 Reverse scrolling direction for a Mouse in Windows 11/10

Search for Device Manager in Start. Win+R devmgmt.msc Once opened, locate your Mouse under Mice and other pointing devices. It is usually named as HID-compliant mouse.

Right-click the device and click on Properties. Go to the Details tab and select Device Instance Path in Property drop-down menu. Make a note of the value displayed under the value field.

Open Registry Manager and go to location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\HID

Under this folder start matching the values the first part of the value you noted in step 5. Open the folder which has the same value.

Click on Device Parameters and find a property called FlipFlopWheel. To reverse the scrolling direction, invert its value from 0 to 1 or 1 to 0. Restart your computer for changes to take place.