On my late 2006 iMac the Mouse preferences screen is sparse. Unfortunately, as someone else has noted, what appears on these panels is very hardware specific. The scroll direction is available under the Mouse settings. Someone suggested: 'You don't need to have a Trackpad in order to see the Trackpad settings pane to change the setting. It will help untrain you from dragging pages the old way (in the opposite direction), and train you on the new, logical way so that you are ready to roll when you upgrade to Lion. If you are using a previous version of Mac OS X, and are thinking of moving to Lion, you should download a free application called 'Scroll Reverser'. The scroll bars are no longer the 'object'.Īlthough this is a change from previous versions of Mac OS X, it is a change for the better, and it makes perfect sense. They are invisible unless you either drag a page or move the cursor over a window edge. If you drag the body of a page, it should move in the same direction, not opposite (as it used to do). If you drag a graphic on a page, you logically expect that object to move in the same direction that you are dragging. A page is an object just as text and graphics are objects on a page. This change makes so much sense, especially if you are using a multi-touch trackpad (multi-touch is the new focus of interacting with OS X).

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