Hi,

I started a new job this weeks wherein I'm using Vista for the first
time. Vista has an automatic horizontal scrolling "feature" which is
incredibly irritating. I'd be extremely grateful if anyone could tell
me how to disable this behaviour. In case you're unfamiiliar with this
feature, here's a nice animation that shows it in action:

http://www.istartedsomething.com/200...lti-scrolling/

Thanks in advance,
DM

<donalmurtagh******.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I started a new job this weeks wherein I'm using Vista for the first
> time. Vista has an automatic horizontal scrolling "feature" which is
> incredibly irritating. I'd be extremely grateful if anyone could tell
> me how to disable this behaviour. In case you're unfamiiliar with this
> feature, here's a nice animation that shows it in action:
>
> http://www.istartedsomething.com/200...lti-scrolling/
>
> Thanks in advance,
> DM


Just widen the folder pane.

DM

This 'feature' was a result of the overwhelming number of people who gave
negative feedback about being forced to move the cursor down to the bottom
of the navigation pane to use the horizontal scroll bar.

If this is important to you, you can give Microsoft feedback at the
following website.

Vista Feedback:
https://feedback.windowsvista.micros...ctkey=winvista

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


<donalmurtagh******.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I started a new job this weeks wherein I'm using Vista for the first
> time. Vista has an automatic horizontal scrolling "feature" which is
> incredibly irritating. I'd be extremely grateful if anyone could tell
> me how to disable this behaviour. In case you're unfamiiliar with this
> feature, here's a nice animation that shows it in action:
>
> http://www.istartedsomething.com/200...lti-scrolling/
>
> Thanks in advance,
> DM

It is unclear why it irritates you. Vista is trying to put the largest
information box into the frame. It has to move the tree horizontally to
accomplish it.

It is not Vista feature, actually. Any generic TreeView Class will behave
the same. I presume there is an internal WinAPI constant that can disable it
at least in generic TreeView. Stop worry about it.

<donalmurtagh******.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I started a new job this weeks wherein I'm using Vista for the first
> time. Vista has an automatic horizontal scrolling "feature" which is
> incredibly irritating. I'd be extremely grateful if anyone could tell
> me how to disable this behaviour. In case you're unfamiiliar with this
> feature, here's a nice animation that shows it in action:
>
> http://www.istartedsomething.com/200...lti-scrolling/
>
> Thanks in advance,
> DM

It irritates me because within a particular application (Eclipse) when I try
to click the '+' in order to expand a node in the tree, Vista scrolls
horizontally, and my click misses the '+'. Effectively, nodes in the tree
"run away" from me when I try to expand them.

If anyone has any useful information about how to disable this behaviour,
I'd be very grateful.

"AlexB" wrote:

> It is unclear why it irritates you. Vista is trying to put the largest
> information box into the frame. It has to move the tree horizontally to
> accomplish it.

DM

What is 'Eclipse'?

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"DM" <DM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> It irritates me because within a particular application (Eclipse) when I
> try
> to click the '+' in order to expand a node in the tree, Vista scrolls
> horizontally, and my click misses the '+'. Effectively, nodes in the tree
> "run away" from me when I try to expand them.
>
> If anyone has any useful information about how to disable this behaviour,
> I'd be very grateful.
>
> "AlexB" wrote:
>
>> It is unclear why it irritates you. Vista is trying to put the largest
>> information box into the frame. It has to move the tree horizontally to
>> accomplish it.
>

I have voted for this "feature" to be listed as one of the most stupid
"innovations" ever made in an OS.

<donalmurtagh******.co.uk> wrote in message
news:dceeec5b-5878-4040-bc6f-02124a1d38e9@c33g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I started a new job this weeks wherein I'm using Vista for the first
> time. Vista has an automatic horizontal scrolling "feature" which is
> incredibly irritating. I'd be extremely grateful if anyone could tell
> me how to disable this behaviour. In case you're unfamiiliar with this
> feature, here's a nice animation that shows it in action:
>
> http://www.istartedsomething.com/200...lti-scrolling/
>
> Thanks in advance,
> DM

I checked MS help at MS sites and could find nothing to this effect.

What happened was they disabled the horizontal bar and with that this
feature apparently kicked in automatically. I was looking for an option to
bring back the bar but could not find anything.


"DM" <DM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A46E4CCF-1B06-49B9-BEC5-84225E638065@microsoft.com...
> It irritates me because within a particular application (Eclipse) when I
> try
> to click the '+' in order to expand a node in the tree, Vista scrolls
> horizontally, and my click misses the '+'. Effectively, nodes in the tree
> "run away" from me when I try to expand them.
>
> If anyone has any useful information about how to disable this behaviour,
> I'd be very grateful.
>
> "AlexB" wrote:
>
>> It is unclear why it irritates you. Vista is trying to put the largest
>> information box into the frame. It has to move the tree horizontally to
>> accomplish it.
>

Eclipse is an IDE for Java developers (loosely speaking).
www.eclipse.org

"Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote:

> DM
>
> What is 'Eclipse'?
>
> --

I agree - it's just plain annoying, and if the worst half dozen of these
annoyances were sorted out, suddenly Vista would be rather good. My own
particular irritation is the refusal of folders to retain their appearance -
I have followed various tutorials to make them do so, but after a week they
are back with icons where I want detailed lists or showing as documents when
they are images. - Doug

"webtweakers" <webtweakers.37v2o1@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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>
> I have exactly the same issue from within Eclipse. This 'feature' is
> extremely irritating and undermines solid development in the most widely
> used developer application.
>
> I do not understand many of the 'features' in Vista, i.e.: lots of
> things are moved around, in comparison to Win XP, without any clear
> benefit or reason - it's just plain annoying, and this horizontal
> scrolling is just one of them. Why is it seemingly impossible to turn
> off this functionality? This thing alone is reason enough to drop Vista
> and use another, better OS.
> --
> webtweakers

I have been able to work around this issue by running Eclipse in
compatibility mode. I have been successful with Eclipse 3.3 running on
Vista in XP SP 2 compatibilty mode. I don't know if there are any
limitations to running like this, but it definitely fixes the scrolling
problem.

To enable: Right-click on your Eclipse short-cut and choose properties.
(I'm not certain if the compatibility settings are stored
per-application or per-shortcut) Go to the Compatibility tab and check
"Run this program in compatibilty mode for:" and be sure "Windows XP
(Service Pack 2)" is selected.

Hope this helps!

UPDATE: It appears that this is being fixed in Eclipse 3.4 RC4:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=164437