windows 7 scrolling issues
I had a windows explorer crash a couple of days ago, and since then any window with scrollable content would auto-scroll to the bottom or to the right. This affected all such windows (browser, mail, development environments (eclipse), windows created by JavaFX applications. All of these ultimately use Windows 7's own windows.
This continued happening, regardless of which type of mouse I used.
I have worked around the above issues, at the cost of no longer being able to use my mouse scroll-wheel, by changing two entries in registry, using "regedit".
The entries are in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Desktop.
They are named: WheelScrollLines (affects vertical scrolling) and WheelScrollChars (affects horizontal scrolling). Set both of these to zero.
I still have one more problem to solve ... drop down menus, not on the menu bar. The drop down appears, and almost immediately disappears again. I think its scrolling to the bottom, but its very quick. Hopefully there's another registry property for controlling this too.
The real problems causing all of this are still unknown. Could be registry corruption when windows explorer crashed, or ???
cheers, Jerry