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Left Sided Windows Scrollbars?
Skin and Blister asks: "Years ago mouse manufacturers realized that not everyone is right handed and (thankfully) created the option of reversing the mouse buttons to accommodate left handed users. Now that laptops (and obviously tablets) have integrated touch technology, the new challenge for south paws is to use a stylus in the left hand to manipulate a scroll bar on the right side of an open window. Does anyone know if there is a way to move scroll bars to the left side of a window in Microsoft Windows XP Pro?"
For most people, that is those not otherwise impared, we have the ability to use both hands for a variety of functions. I use both hands to type... most people do. When I drive, one hand is on the wheel, usually the left. (my current car is automatic, but I learned on manual.) I learned to play guitar... a little. But the fact is, each hand has a function.
I am "right handed" though.
Can I use a mouse left-handed? Yeah... I do that on occasion at work when using more than one computer simultaneously. I don't think it's beyond the capability of most "lefties" out there to adapt and use their hands by function rather than clinging to their weaknesses. (And by weakness, I mean tendency to favor one hand over the other.) I'm nobody special. I'm not gifted or exceptional in any way that I know of.
Either I'm wrong and I do posess extraordinary ability in that I can mouse with either left or right hands, fret my guitar and drive with my left hand, or the "lefties" out there who cannot adapt and learn, have retarded ability because they cannot adapt and learn to use both hands for various functions. So which is it? Are lefties retarded? Or am I just gifted and tallented? I can't see how it can be both or neither really.