Automatic Scrolling

[Ajit C]

Hello,

I'm desperately looking for help on this one. All of a sudden at some point
of time whatever window i have active will scroll to an extreme (sometimes
its all to the right, and sometimes it goes all to the bottom). If i
forcibly try to push the scroll bar up that doesn't work either, unless i
push it up and don't bring my cursor back into the main 'body' of the window
(meaning if i hover on the toolbars or on the task bar or basically anywhere
except the main place) then the scrolling doesn't happen. Only way to solve
this so far is a reboot, but that's SUCH a pain when i'm at work and have
apps open.

I guess I can conclude that its not because any keys on the keyboard may be
stuck because a reboot wouldn't solve it in that case right? Also it doesn't
seem to be a laptop issue because i've had it on different laptops. I tried
googling it but i'm not even sure what keywords to use as just "auto
scrolling windows xp" etc. brings up too many irrelevant links.

This current laptop is an IBM Thinkpad T60, and I have windows xp SP2 and
this auto scrolling happens on any active window (as i mentioned) and
doesn't specifically happen with the start of any specific app. Would
appreciate any help on this, thanks very much!

ajit

 

[Kelly]

What does Lenovo have to say?
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-62928.html

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[Ajit C]

Hello Kelly,

Apologies for the delay in responding.. I was actually waiting to see if the
problem replicated itself after the update to the drivers were installed
(from the link u gave me, thanks for that)... but no go, it just happened
today again, scrolled all the way over to the right :'(

any other suggestions i could try out?

 

[Kelly]

Hmmm

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[Guest]

Hello,

I'm desperately looking for help on this one. All of a sudden at some point
of time whatever window i have active will scroll to an extreme (sometimes
its all to the right, and sometimes it goes all to the bottom). If i
forcibly try to push the scroll bar up that doesn't work either, unless i
push it up and don't bring my cursor back into the main 'body' of the window
(meaning if i hover on the toolbars or on the task bar or basically anywhere
except the main place) then the scrolling doesn't happen. Only way to solve
this so far is a reboot, but that's SUCH a pain when i'm at work and have
apps open.

I guess I can conclude that its not because any keys on the keyboard may be
stuck because a reboot wouldn't solve it in that case right? Also it doesn't
seem to be a laptop issue because i've had it on different laptops. I tried
googling it but i'm not even sure what keywords to use as just "auto
scrolling windows xp" etc. brings up too many irrelevant links.

This current laptop is an IBM Thinkpad T60, and I have windows xp SP2 and
this auto scrolling happens on any active window (as i mentioned) and
doesn't specifically happen with the start of any specific app. Would
appreciate any help on this, thanks very much!

ajit

Does this
because i've had it on different laptops
mean that the scrolling problem happens on different laptops?
Are there any common softwares on those laptops.
Sounds like a driver issue or something that hooks the driver.
Screen capture utilities?
Remote access drivers?

Sometimes a hot-zone on a touchpad can put you into scrolling mode.
Or accidentally pressing both left and right buttons...or with a
control key.

Suppose you've tried Alt-F4 to close the window...or escape to undo an
input mode.

 

[Ajit C]

Yea.. good point about common softwares but i guess its hard to find which
ones may be at the root of this (I'm assuming the only way to find out is to
uninstall one by one and see if the issue gets solved? which might take a
loooong time coz like i said, there's no regular interval when this hits)..
hmm remote access can be ruled out i guess cuz on my personal laptop (Dell)
i never use it for any remote access.. one common screen capture utility
that i do use however is SnagIt (which is just fabulous i must say ) and
i'm sincerely hoping that's not the cause here.. i'm trying to remember if
this has ever happened when i have never opened SnagIt in the day.. hmm..

to answer your question though yes i've tried Alt+F4 or just downright 'X'
ing the window close but no go.. when the problem hits, it hits all windows
i have.. so for example if i bring up firefox it'll scroll to the extreme
bottom, if i bring up IE same thing, MS Word same thing.. and so on..
nothing short of a reboot fixes it, which can be highly irritating in the
middle of work.