disable dynamic horizontal scrolling in Vista

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donalmurtagh

Hi,

I started a new job this weeks wherein I'm using Vista for the first
time. Vista has an automatic horizontal scrolling "feature" which is
incredibly irritating. I'd be extremely grateful if anyone could tell
me how to disable this behaviour. In case you're unfamiiliar with this
feature, here's a nice animation that shows it in action:

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061102/dynamic-multi-scrolling/

Thanks in advance,
DM
 
Hi,

I started a new job this weeks wherein I'm using Vista for the first
time. Vista has an automatic horizontal scrolling "feature" which is
incredibly irritating. I'd be extremely grateful if anyone could tell
me how to disable this behaviour. In case you're unfamiiliar with this
feature, here's a nice animation that shows it in action:

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061102/dynamic-multi-scrolling/

Thanks in advance,
DM
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Just widen the folder pane.
 
It is unclear why it irritates you. Vista is trying to put the largest
information box into the frame. It has to move the tree horizontally to
accomplish it.

It is not Vista feature, actually. Any generic TreeView Class will behave
the same. I presume there is an internal WinAPI constant that can disable it
at least in generic TreeView. Stop worry about it.
 
It irritates me because within a particular application (Eclipse) when I try
to click the '+' in order to expand a node in the tree, Vista scrolls
horizontally, and my click misses the '+'. Effectively, nodes in the tree
"run away" from me when I try to expand them.

If anyone has any useful information about how to disable this behaviour,
I'd be very grateful.
 
I have voted for this "feature" to be listed as one of the most stupid
"innovations" ever made in an OS.
 
I checked MS help at MS sites and could find nothing to this effect.

What happened was they disabled the horizontal bar and with that this
feature apparently kicked in automatically. I was looking for an option to
bring back the bar but could not find anything.
 
I agree - it's just plain annoying, and if the worst half dozen of these
annoyances were sorted out, suddenly Vista would be rather good. My own
particular irritation is the refusal of folders to retain their appearance -
I have followed various tutorials to make them do so, but after a week they
are back with icons where I want detailed lists or showing as documents when
they are images. - Doug
 
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