Reverse Touchpad 4-Finger Swipe

Question

I recently got a Windows 10 laptop. Opposite to my Macbook, I must swipe right-to-left to go to the right virtual desktop. Is there a way to reverse this, so I swipe left-to-right to go to the right virtual desktop?

Solution 1

I'm hoping this will be useful to those looking into the same problem. I was able to resolve OP's issue on my Windows 10 HP laptop with Synaptics drivers by doing the following:

Use regedit to navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Synaptics\SynTPEnh\ZoneConfig\Win10\4FHorizontal Scrolling

Swap the values for NegativeCustomZoneID and PositiveCustomZoneID. That is:
Change NegativeCustomZoneID from Hex 88 (Decimal 136) to Hex 87 (Decimal 135)
Change PositiveCustomZoneID from Hex 87 (Decimal 135) to Hex 88 (Decimal 136)

Reboot, and now the four-finger swipe direction should be successfully reversed.

Solution 2

In Windows 10, if you have a touchpad, you will probably have one of the options mentioned in the other answers:

Start Menu -> Settings -> Mouse & touchpad -> Reverse scrolling direction

Something manufacturer- or device-specific, probably accessible through Control Panel -> Mouse or something similar, as noted in other answers.

2nd Way: Powershell commands

Run this in PowerShell (from Start » All Programs » Accessories » Windows PowerShell):

# View registry settings
Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\HID\*\*\Device` Parameters FlipFlopWheel -EA 0

# Change registry settings
# Reverse mouse wheel scroll FlipFlopWheel = 1 
# Normal mouse wheel scroll FlipFlopWheel = 0 
Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\HID\*\*\Device` Parameters FlipFlopWheel -EA 0 | ForEach-Object { Set-ItemProperty $_.PSPath FlipFlopWheel 1 }

The command for normal (non-inverted) scrolling has the 0 and 1 swapped:

# Restore default scroll direction
Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\HID\*\*\Device` Parameters FlipFlopWheel -EA 1 | ForEach-Object { Set-ItemProperty $_.PSPath FlipFlopWheel 0 }

Comments

[Admin]

Did you find a solution? I have the same query and my ThinkPad laptop uses Synaptics drivers.

[Thomas Schreiter]

Will this revert the direction of all scroll gestures or only of the 4-finger swipe? (My 2-finger scroll already works correctly, but the 4-finger swipe is inverted)

[DavidPostill]

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[alejo15]

I see! My mistake, I'll be sure to do this from now on. Thank you!

[Naidim]

Excellent, thanks! I've been looking for a solution for this for months.

[SamAndrew81]

It only changes the 4-finger swipe direction. I just used this to fix the issue on my Dell Latitude laptop.

[denNorske]

This worked excellently well on my Lenovo Yoga 610 with synaptics drivers. I did not even have to reboot for it to work on Windows 1903

[Rich]

This should be marked as the answer.