# IE Scrollbar **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 25, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-scrollbar/215129 "2003-11-25T04:46:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-scrollbar/215129/1 "2003-11-25T04:46:23Z")
All of a sudden my IE scrollbar and “up and down” buttons are acting weird. Used to be, when I clicked in the scrollbar region below the scrollbar, I would scroll down so that the last line of the previous page is now the first line of the new page. But now it scrolls me too far down in the next page. The “up and down” buttons are moving the page more than one line too. Any ideas how I can get the settings back to “normal”? Thanks. IE 6.0.2800… Windows XP ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-scrollbar/215129/2 "2003-11-25T06:26:58Z")
This is due to a [flaw](http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1382912,00.asp) in the latest Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer, [MS03-048](http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-048.asp). > [@](#): > > After the patch is applied, the page scrolls up or down twice when the user clicks once in the empty areas of the scrollbar. Clicking on the scrollbar arrows or dragging the scrollbar thumb works correctly. AFAIK there are no fixes at this time. Uninstalling the patch will get rid of the scrolling problem but will also reopen dangerous vulnerabilities in your browser. I don’t recommend it. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-scrollbar/215129/3 "2003-11-25T06:29:25Z")
Start - Control Settings - mouse - wheel - select the number of lines you want. Also check in EI - tools - internet options - ( is smooth scrolling checked or not? Experiment in which way youy prefer. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-scrollbar/215129/4 "2003-11-25T07:18:27Z")
AH HA!!! I did just run the update on my system. Hmm … I don’t seem to have a mouse-wheel control. It’s a long story with my mouse driver. The standard driver I got with XP had some really bad habits, like ghosts clicks, so I installed a Logitech mouse driver and my mouse pad works much better now (even though I don’t use the Logitech mouse). This problem is only with my IE, my text editor (and everything else I have tried) seem to be OK. Thanks for the info folks, I appreciate it. ---
**Author:** ![rsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsa)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-scrollbar/215129/5 "2003-11-25T18:31:32Z")
I seem to have stumbled on a workaround (I’m using IE 6.0). If I click near the extremes of the scroll bar slider area, the display scrolls two pages. However, if I click close to the scroll bar the display scrolls a single page as it should. The key seems to be that if the cursor is over the scroll bar after scrolling one page, it will stop there and not scroll the second page. BTW, you can also right click anywhere on the scroll bar or the slider area and select “Page Up” or “Page Down” and it will scroll a single page. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-scrollbar/215129/6 "2003-11-26T00:27:26Z")
Cool, that seems to work very well. Thanks.