Switch Primary and Secondary Buttons on Mouse in Windows 8

Edited by Lukward Thomason, Crystal, Eng

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Steps

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    The first thing that we need to do is right-click on the lower left corner of the screen, then click on "Control Panel"
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    When the Control Panel opens, we need to click "Hardware and Sound"
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    In this section, click "Mouse" in the "Devices and Printers" category
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    This will open up a menu.
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    To switch the button configuration, we need to check the "Switch primary and secondary buttons" box
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    After clicking here, it will automatically change, which means that in order to uncheck or click "OK", we have to right-click
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    This concludes the tutorial on how to switch primary and secondary buttons on the mouse on a Windows 8 computer
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Recent edits by: Crystal, Lukward Thomason

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