Dell Mouse Hack

Simple hack to physically change the direction of the scroll wheel on a Dell 5 button mouse. The thing that makes this so easy is that the leads for the scroll wheel are plugged into the mouse board. So by simply switching the wires you can change the mouse so scrolling up actually scrolls down and vise-versa. A simple 7 minute prank you can pull on co-workers.

Step 1: Hope they have a mouse that looks like:














Step 2: Pull it apart














Step 3: Remove the white wires with a small screw driver by prying up (only slightly) the white tabs on the plug


Step 4: Cross the streams

Step 5: Reassemble