How do you disable this "feature".

georges

georges

georges

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Hey, I have this annoying gripe with XP which has annoyed me since I got it installed and I've never found a way to disable it:

When you are in a folder and click once on a file/folder (eg: to get focus on that window), then scroll around, it scrolls you back up to the file/folder you clicked originally and you have to scroll again.
This is pretty vague, but I'm sure someone must know a way to disable it.

Is there a way to video a window so I could show you what I mean?

Thanks.
 
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I don't quite get what you mean. After scrolling it stays where it is - if you use an arrow key then of course it will move back to where the highlight is. This seems like the most intuitive way of working to me. If you want to stay in the same place then you can just click on a file that you can see lower down.
 
georges said:
Hey, I have this annoying gripe with XP which has annoyed me since I got it installed and I've never found a way to disable it:

When you are in a folder and click once on a file/folder (eg: to get focus on that window), then scroll around, it scrolls you back up to the file/folder you clicked originally and you have to scroll again.
This is pretty vague, but I'm sure someone must know a way to disable it.

Is there a way to video a window so I could show you what I mean?

Thanks.
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I know exactly what you mean. I had the same problem a few months ago. The only way I got around the problem was to view files as 'details' (In explorer click View>Details). Since then I've reinstalled Windows XP and the problem has now gone. Sorry I can't be of any more help.
 
Ah ok thanks. Shame you can' disable it for over views.

For the first person:

If you highlight a file, then scroll down, it puts you back to the highlighted file automatically and you have to scroll again, no buttons pushed..

So
Click to focus > Scroll down (Comp puts you where you started) > have to scrolla gain.
 
I get some of this nonsense at work when updating file associations. I.e, I'll be scrolling around a directory of files, double click one, tell it to use notepad/wordpad to view, and then it scrolls back up to the top.

Mind you, at work I use NT4/98SE/2000pro depending what Workstation I'm on, so it might be different in more modern versions of windows.
 
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