double pagination clicking slide bar-fix?

[A. O. Collins]

a while back i noticed when i click on the open area of
the slide bar, IE6 will double paginate (not the normal 1
page down); clicking on the down or up arrows will move
more than two lines not the normal one; not a clue what
has changed in IE6 to make pagination so odd; anyone have
any clues to go back to click=1 page down?; thank you.....

 

[Daniel]

Same thing has happened to my IE6, I believe since the
latest Windows Update in November. I've seen this
strange behaviour reported in other forums, but I'm not
aware of any fix yet. Is Microsoft aware of the problem?

Daniel

 

[A. O. Collins]

Daniel
i have just discovered this is a 'bug' in the latest
KB824145 update for IE6; can use the PgUp/Dn keys for
exact pagination until the fix arrives; this is a 'new
feature' that in my opinion was not needed

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Same thing has happened to my IE6, I believe since the
latest Windows Update in November. I've seen this
strange behaviour reported in other forums, but I'm not
aware of any fix yet. Is Microsoft aware of the problem?

Daniel


.

Microsoft is supposedly aware...until a fix is provided,
you can hit SPACE to go down a page and SHIFT-SPACE to go
up one page.

 

[Ed Felty]

In

Microsoft is supposedly aware...until a fix is provided,
you can hit SPACE to go down a page and SHIFT-SPACE to go
up one page.

This is a 'new feature"...If you mouse click close to the slider, you will
scroll 1 page. If you click away from the slider, you will scroll 2 pages.


Eddie in Colorado Springs

"The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body is required on it."

 

[Isaac Rabinovitch]

This is a 'new feature"...If you mouse click close to the slider, you will
scroll 1 page. If you click away from the slider, you will scroll 2 pages.

I don't think this is a feature. When I click close to the slider, I do get the proper amount of
scrolling, but the background fails to change back to its normal color. Obviously two click events
are occuring. The only difference when you click next to the slider is that the second even arrives
after the slider has moved under the mouse. This confuses the event procedure, which aborts without
doing the scroll -- or restoring the normal background color.

 

[Ed Felty]

In

I don't think this is a feature. When I click close to the slider, I do
get the proper amount of scrolling, but the background fails to change
back to its normal color. Obviously two click events are occuring. The
only difference when you click next to the slider is that the second even
arrives after the slider has moved under the mouse. This confuses the
event procedure, which aborts without doing the scroll -- or restoring
the normal background color.

Sorry...I can't help you then. It works that way here and was mentioned in
the Woody's Windows Watch newsletter of 18Nov03:

A(nother) Botched Windows Security Patch
Thanks to all of you who wrote alerting me to the problems!

Larry Seltzer at eWeek reports - and I can confirm - that the "critical"
security patch MS03-048 / 824145 makes Internet Explorer behave in
frustrating ways. In particular, after you install the patch, any time you
click in an empty part of the scrollbar (which is to say, anywhere except on
the "thumb" or the up-and-down arrows), IE scrolls up or down two pages
instead of one, and text that was selected on the page is deselected.
Apparently the patch also breaks some HTML commands, generating "Access
Denied" errors.

In the same article, Larry also implies that Microsoft sat on the MS03-051
"critical" security patch for months. At least the file date stamps point in
that direction.

What to do? Install the bloody things and rail against the Windows Patching
Gods, who are clearly asleep at the wheel.

If the IE 6 oddity bugs you enough, try clicking immediately above or below
the "thumb" so you only scroll by one page, and if that doesn't work,
uninstall patch 824145 (Start | Control Panel | Add or Remove Programs).
Take solace in the fact that, starting early next year with Service Pack 2,
Windows XP patches will be applied automatically by default - without your
knowledge or consent.

But whatever you do, run Windows Update (Start | All Programs | Windows
Update) and get patched. Paul Roberts at IDG News reports that working
"exploit" code is now circulating on the Web that takes advantage of the
hole patched by MS03-049. Like it or not, you need to get patched.

Trustworthy computing.

 

[H Leboeuf]

A temporary fix for those interested.

Quote
824145 security fix.

As far as the troubleshooters, see here:
There are 2 separate fixes depending on which is the last critical update
you have
installed. See here for info:
http://home.comcast.net/~bascon58/98Help.htm

HTH,
"Curt Christianson"
Unquote.

 

[Isaac Rabinovitch]

Henri, you've posted that link about 100 times. But I still can't find anything there that seems to
apply to the scroll bar problem.

 

[Jon Peltier]

Hard to find anything there with that annoying background image.

- Jon

 

[H Leboeuf]

Isaac,

Bottom of the page.

The second critical update in November 2003, Q824145, added a kill bit to
the registry to prevent the ActiveX control Tshoot.ocx from being
compromised. There are two ways to restore the help troubleshooter known at
this time.
Workaround 1:
Many thanks to MS MVP George (Bindar Dundat) for his time and effort spent
in creating a file that enables users to once again be able to use their
troubleshooting wizards.
What this file does when run is remove the kill bit value and allows the
Tshooter to run properly, when you are finished with the Tshooter and close
out, the kill bit is re-entered into the registry to protect against the
ActiveX vulnerability.
Download the zip file, double click on it to open it in your zip program
and read the ReadMe.txt file on how to install and use it.
Before opening or running any file/s downloaded from any web site, always
run a virus check on them. This file has been scanned and verified to be
virus free at the time it was posted to this site.
Note to those that have already downloaded: This download has been changed
and now includes a readme file.
Download: Windows Trouble Shooter.zip

Workaround 2:
These are not recommended as it opens back up the ActiveX vulnerability and
should only be done under extreme conditions:
Uninstall Q824145 via Add/Remove programs.
or
It is recommend that you back up the registry before making any changes in
it at any time. Then if you err in your ways, you can restore the registry
from DOS using the command scanreg /restore.
To back up the registry go to Start > Run, type in: scanregw and hit
enter.
To remove the kill bit from the registry:
Click Start > Run, type in: regedit and hit enter
Navigate to the Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\ActiveX Components\{4B106874-DD36-11D0-8B44-00A024DD9EFF}
Click once on the Key to highlite, go to the Menu Bar and click Registry >
Export Registry File
Change the Save In to Desktop, type in a memorable name, click Selected
Branch, click Save, press Delete to remove the entry in the registry and
close out.
If something should go wrong, double click on the saved .reg file to
import it back into the registry.

 

[H Leboeuf]

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