RE: [OT] Strange Scroll Bar Behaviour

["Don McAllister" <donmc@xxxxxxx>]

DOH!

Thanks for the prompt reply Simon. I really want to uninstall this feature
:-)

Don

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Beech [mailto:simon@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 12 December 2003 10:12
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Strange Scroll Bar Behaviour
>
> From Langlist...
> 3) Has Your Scrollbar Behavior Changed?
>
> Mine has. Many readers are reporting the same thing, too:
>
>      I'm having an annoying problem. While I'm using IE6, I always
>      scroll the screen by clicking the vertical scroll bar (one
>      click, one screen). Since I installed Microsoft's latest
>      security patch, Cumulative Security Update for Internet
>      Explorer 6 SP1 (KB824145), the page advances TWO screens per
>      click. After I noticed this weird behavior, I uninstalled the
>      patch and the problem went away. Then I checked out my wife's
>      computer after she installed the update, and it has the same
>      problem. Our machines are set up almost identically, but I
>      find it hard to believe we are the only folks seeing this
>      behavior. Microsoft's knowledge base has been no help so far,
>      and I have seen no mention of this problem anywhere. Any
>      ideas? ---Dan Cross
>
> Bizarrely, it's not a bug. It appears to be a
> poorly-implemented new "feature."
>
> The vertical scroll bar--- sometimes called the "elevator"
> bar--- is now distance sensitive. If you click near the
> slider, you'll scroll up or down one screen, as before. If
> you click far away from the slider, you'll advance two screens.
>
> It makes a kind of sense, unless--- like millions of users, including
> me-
> -- you're used to parking the mouse at the top or bottom of
> the scroll area and clicking on that one spot to read through
> a document one page at a time. Now, that no longer works, and
> you have to reposition the mouse after each click.
>
> The new behavior also is not universal; the change does not
> affect all vertical scroll bars in all applications. Now you
> have to remember which ones work which way. Sigh.
>
> I think we'll soon see patches and fixes that let us modify
> or disable this annoying "feature" that clearly did not get
> user-tested very well at all prior to release.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don McAllister [mailto:donmc@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 12 December 2003 10:09
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] Strange Scroll Bar Behaviour
>
>
>
> Anyone ever had problems using scroll bars? My windows 2000
> box seems to be misbehaving when scrolling in IE and other
> apps. I usually click on the upper or lower section of the
> scroll bar to surf etc and usually this scrolls the page down
> by a full screen. Recently, this now appears to result in
> scrolloing down one and a half pages causing sections of the
> page to be jumped!
>
> Anyone any ideas on how to reset this as it's driving me barmy!
>
> PS I don't like scrolling by wheel :-)
>
> Regards
> Don
>
>
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