Customizing mouse wheel scrolling

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David Jensen

I just upgraded to windows XP and noticed that the mouse
scroll wheel doesn't function the same as in Windows 2000.

The basic problem:

In windows 2000, if you have multiple window frames open
and you point in one of them frames, then scroll with the
wheel, the pages scroll. If you move to another frame and
scroll with the wheel, the pages scrolls.

In windows XP, when I move between frames with the pointer
and scroll - it scrolls in the old frame, not the new one.
I need to click within the new frame in order for it to
scroll in the new frame. I find this irritating and would
like to know if I can customize it to the windows 2000
method of point and scroll.

Thanks in advance,

David
 
David Jensen said:
When I open explorer, I often have around 100 directories
in the left hand frame and about 200 files within each
directory on the right hand frame.

In windows 2000, I could point to the directory frame with
the mouse and scroll the wheel and it would scroll. Then,
I could point to the file frame and scroll and it would
scroll. In windows XP, I have to click between the frames
in order to make the scroll work...e.g. point to left
frame, click, then scroll, point to right frame, click,
then scroll....

Is there any way to turn this feature off so it is simply
back to point and scrolling as in windows 2000?
Click to expand...

TweakUI has an x-mouse option where the focus follows the mouse so
that a click is not required, just the presence of the mouse. You
might want to try it out. My feeling is that first you'd better be
sure your system is set to activate programs via a double-click
(control panel\folder options).
 
Try removing any software that came with your mouse. XP doesn't require extra software for most mouses, and as I said XP does work the way you want so it must be something else other than XP causing this.

For instance MS Mouse software add some pretty mouse pointers (I lied they are ugly and childish) and a feature that enables scrolling in programs that don't support it (the program thinks your pressing the arrow keys). .
 
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