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Mac OS X has spoiled me with the ability to scroll to any point I click on a scrollbar. In Windows XP, I cannot find a native option to enable this same behavior.
For example, if I'm viewing a long webpage (or PDF, etc.) and I click a point on the scrollbar more than one viewport height away, I can scroll directly to that point in a single click under OS X. In XP, instead it scrolls one page length at a time closer to that point which makes browsing long documents a pain. I want the "scroll to click" functionality without having to drag the scrollbar.
I have gone through the appropriate control panels and Tweak UI app of Powertoys to no avail.
I do not have any 3rd-party mouse software installed.
How can I do it?
Taylor Edmiston
Posted 2010-08-03T14:25:25.283
Reputation: 195
1Damn, 8 seconds away from answering my first Windows question. :P Upvoted! – NReilingh – 2010-08-03T14:29:51.030
Sorry! You can take the next one :) – JNK – 2010-08-03T14:31:03.170
I should clarify: I want this to be the default behavior when I click on on a scrollbar. Is there a Registry setting or app that allows this? – Taylor Edmiston – 2010-08-03T15:55:56.030
I'm not aware of any, and I can't find any through searching. There probably is going to be a program to mac-like behavior, but I doubt you can get one that only affects scrollbars. – JNK – 2010-08-03T16:08:06.880
1That would be fine. I'll leave this open for a bit in case one turns up. – Taylor Edmiston – 2010-08-03T16:24:08.903
In some scroll bars, you can right click and select "Scroll Here". Not exactly what you want, but might be easier than reaching for the Shift key in some cases. – Bavi_H – 2010-08-04T01:49:16.687