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To: Ira Player who wrote (37997)	11/30/2003 9:11:54 AM
From: Jurgis Bekepuris	Respond to of 110653

Got the same problem. It is annoying. :( Let's hope Microsoft fixes it soon. Jurgis

To: Ira Player who wrote (37997)	12/6/2003 6:35:25 AM
From: thecow	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110653

From this weeks Langa Letter 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.