[Closed] Chromebook guest mode - not remembering settings

Or is it not possible to change guest settings permanently?

I'd sort of assumed that but never tried. Can't you just set up another account with the settings you want?

Guest settings are temporary, that's the whole point.

If you want a permanent account set one up.

I’m trying to get it to remember the touchpad setting as Australian so it scrolls like other laptops the kids are used to but each time I leave and re enter guest mode it’s reset to traditional way round scrolling.

The normal settings match nearly every other phone, tablet and laptop in the world. Have you thought about changing the other laptop to the "normal" way, or just give your kids their own account on your Chromebook so they don't have to use the Guest access?

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On my android phone, MacBook and windows laptop if I move my fingers up the touchpad (or phone screen)the page scrolls towards the bottom ( these were always the default settings) on the Chromebook I have to have it set to Australian on the touchpad settings otherwise it scrolls the opposite way round.

Hang on. What???

Is that not normal?!

If it's not I can change them all to the other way, apart from the phone as I've never seen a setting on it for changing scroll direction

Edit just to clarify -

Eg on this site, if I swipe my finger up the screen, the page moves up the display so I end up at the bottom of the screen. Same on the laptop trackpads, except the Chromebook needs to be set to Australian on touchpad sertings to do this

OK. I see what you mean now.

With the touch pad, you need to imagine you are scrolling not the whole page, but the scroll bar (usually extreme right hand side of the window). That's perfectly normal.

The touchpad on my Windows 10 laptop behaves the same as my phone and tablet and has done for years. Didn't realise the "Australian" way was still the way some are being delivered.

Buy a mouse.

I've no idea about Chromebooks, but would two-finger gesture scrolling do what you're trying to do perhaps?

So, in australia, you scroll 'upside down' compared to the UK?

That makes me very happy.

That's surely a joke / coincidence rather than actually the case?

Thinking about this a bit, there's different ways of scrolling on a trackpad. The method I've always used (when I've used it all rather than Page Up / Page Down on the keyboard) has been a hot-spot on the pad which emulates the scroll bar, so you drag down to go down the page (ie, with the text scrolling up). Gesture scrolling uses the entire pad and works like a touchscreen so the axes are both inverted, to go down the page you'd scroll upwards to push the page up.

The latter is how it works on this very laptop, a feature i didn't know existed until I tried it just now.

IIRC, my old laptop's touchpad worked the opposite way to my Chromebook I use now.

If I drag two fingers down the pad, the screen scrolls down the page. Drag a finger down the touchscreen, and the page scrolls up.