Microsoft, why not make scroll bars easier to use?

[John Doe]

One of my pet peeves about Windows 95 and later was that I could no
longer maximize a window and slap-and-click the pointer against the
right hand side of the screen to scroll the maximized window. That has
to do with the fact a scrollbar no longer touches the very right hand
side of the desktop, it is surrounded by some useless border.

I recently noticed that in Windows XP SP3, with the task bar on the
bottom of the desktop, left clicking at the very bottom of the screen
causes the pointer to come up two or three pixels higher, on a program
button. Apparently that is because Microsoft wants a left click below a
program button on the previously useless border area to have the
purpose of activating that program button window above it. So why can't
Microsoft do the same for a scrollbar? Why not have clicking on the
very far right hand side of the screen work the same as clicking on the
scrollbar, instead of clicking on a useless scrollbar border?

 

[barrel]

I set the border width to zero with a program called diplayset (its free
google it and if you can find it you in luck because its old) and it was
very close..
I bet with a bit more tweaking I could get that..

but to answer your question why Microsoft doesn't do it... hey... they are
are the same people that made vista... don't overestimate their
intelligence.