Otter's Journal: Is this a mouse problem or a Windows problem?

Frequently, in a variety of apps, I'll start scrolling upwards and the page will jerk up, down, up, down and eventually go continuously upwards.

Is this common? What causes it? I can believe it's the mouse (a bundled Thinkpad mouse -- I still don't get why the PC crowd thinks this boat anchor is a great piece of engineering) but it seems unlikely, given the simplicity of a scroll wheel and its driver. Is it a Windows thing?

Unbefreakinglievably annoying, in any case...

Beats the crap out of me, but...

[Oculus Habent]

This started happening on my work PC, but now it occurs on ALL of the PCs I use with a mouse, to varying degrees. This spans three operating systems (98, 2k, XP) and several types of mice - Microsoft Wheel Mouse, Wheel Mouse optical, Logitech Wheel (branded), generic piece-of-shit...

I blame government ROTHR testing.

smooth scrolling

[Organized Konfusion]

some people like it, others hate it. Easy to turn off I'm guessing because I've disabled it on every PC I ever get near (just cant remember how anymore).

Re:smooth scrolling

[Otter]

Thanks! -- I can't try it out since that option is locked down on this system, but I'm not sure that's the issue I'm talking about, anyway. I see it in apps besides IE, and Smooth Scrolling doesn't sound like it causes jumps in the wrong direction.

I guess windows

[gmhowell]

I have the problem with a MS intellimouse on WinXP. So in my case, it is definately Microsoft:) Except that it happens most often in Mozilla.

Pardon me, could you be a bit more vauge?

[Planesdragon]

The only two things I can recommend you to try are:

1: try clicking the middle mouse button. See the "scroll sphere" that appears? This may be what you're inadvertently activating. Stop doing that.

2: Try a different mouse, and see if you get the same problem.