Page loading wrong

Factual Questions
1

When I go to certain sites the pages load and the computer scrolls down to the middle or the bottom of the page. To read the whole page I have to scroll back up or hit home. I’m using Internet Explored, Vista 8 so it says. I don’t remember downloading it but it happened sometime. Anyone have any ideas?

2

can you provide an example? it could be the the links you are clicking contain reference to an anchor mid-page (ie. Default title | Domain.com)

3

I have looked at sites on About.com, LLBean, and many others. Sometimes it jumps halfway down the page and sometimes it goes right to the bottom.

4

I was hoping for a specific example - next time it happens, give us the actual link (and/or see if the link has an #anchor on the end).

5

Here are a few I just visited.
http://www.llbean.com/;
http://www.llbean.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?categoryId=505484&catalogId=1&storeId=1&langId=-1&nav=p-hp&feat=hi
http://www.mccormick.com/Recipes/Main-Dish/Shrimp-Scampi.aspx
http://www.mccormick.com/Recipes/Main-Dish/Chicken-Cacciatore.aspx

6

All of these pages went to the middle or the bottom of the page. As it loads the page shows the top then it jumps right to the middle or the bottom.

7

I’m not able to replicate this behaviour myself, so unless someone is able to, I would have to assume it’s specific to your browser/computer.

Do you have any scripts or addons running that you can temporarily disable?

8

Can you tell me what scripts and addons are and how to disable them? I’m not very computer literate. Thanks.

9

[ol]
[li]Are you using a laptop?[/li][li]If so, is that laptop an IBM or Lenovo?[/li][li]If it is an IBM or Lenovo laptop, does it have a fingerpad/thumbpad?[/li][/ol]
IBM/Lenovo laptops with fingerpads/thumbpads often have a bad driver. When activated, it can play havoc with your mouse. If can also cause uncontrolled scrolling of open windows, be it a browser, an office application, etc. If you cannot update the driver, tap the fingerpad/thumbpad to deactivate it. Then you should be fine.

If it’s not an IBM or Lenovo laptop, with a fingerpad/thumbpad, I got nothing.

10

It’s a HP desktop. Thanks for the suggestion though.