Windows 7: Stopping folder navigation pane auto scrolling down

Hi Guys,
I have a problem that I want to ask, its something about the file explorer on windows 7 that is kinda annoying for me.

Sometimes when I open (click or double click) a folder on the navigation pane (folder browser on the left pane of windows explorer),
somehow the folder will automatically scrolled down to the bottom,
Not always, but sometimes. Is there anyway to stop it from scrolling down unintentionally?

Any help is welcome.




Here is the screen cast:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6dOLKhLCEU"]YouTube - a4[/ame]

Have you changed any system settings? Is there any defining trait as to why it happens, or does it seem random?

hi Sliverz, and welcome to sevenforums, the place to be...

yes, i feel your pain.

this is a really annoying 'feature', and seems to be default behaviour, where the currently opened folder jumps down towards the bottom of the left-hand navigation pane.

as far as i know, you can't turn it off - if anyone knows how - do please tell!

See, I don't have anything like that happening on my system.

Zen00, maybe you don't have 'automatically expand to current folder' box ticked...?

if you do, then whenever you select a folder, the tree on the left-hand side scrolls so that the selected folder is right near the bottom.

it's very annoying, and i don't see why it does it.

Well, it's easy enough to turn off, just right click the navigation bar and deselect it.

yes, but both the OP and i wish to have our cake, and eat it.

that is, we want to auto expand to current folder, but not so it expands down to the bottom...

You could quit school, move into your mothers basement, and become a code hacker and rewrite Windows to the way you prefer.

I tried to turned it off and on, but still, sometimes the folder will just scrolled down to the bottom for no reason. It's a clean install of windows 7, I haven't installed anything.

It looks like when I open a folder (let say folder A) for the first time it will auto scroll to the bottom, but the second time, it stay still. But if I open another folder (folder B), and open folder a again, it will then jump again to the bottom. Really strange. I'll try to make a screen recording to show you the problems.

I've added a screen cast on the first post.

I know it's a bit too small, but please notice, the selected folders, and how it jumped to the base of the navigation pane when it was opened.

both with auto expand turned off and on, will give the same result for me.