Swap the Mouse Buttons. Make your Mouse Left-Handed.

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Convert any mouse into a leftie-friendly one.


Hey, all you left-handed people… here’s the quick little registry hack to swap the left and right mouse buttons. A buddy of mine needed this the other day and couldn’t find it.

This involves changing the registry. If you don’t know what you are doing, just stop. Learning how to backup your system and registry is a must.

Here’s the easy registry hack:

    1. Open regedit
    2. Goto User Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse
    3. Create a new REG_SZ (String Value)
    4. Name it SwapMouseButtons
    5. Set the value to 1 for swap

If you need to change it back, change the value to 0.

 

3 Comments -


  1. Anonymous said on March 29, 2010

    hi,

    I created a .reg file as a script to swap the buttons in my laptop , but the changes dose not effective, what`s the problem?

    regards
    hamid

  2. Blah said on July 13, 2010

    think u need to reboot.

  3. A2P said on November 23, 2011

    Great guy, it does the same as the “Mouse Properties” in the Control Panel :(

    The only good mouse for left-handed is the Roccat Kova with a button combination to exchange buttons. Wish others will do the same…

 

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