Windows XP – How to Enable ‘Scroll to Click’

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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?

Best Answer

Hold shift, then click on that point in the scrollbar. It will take you there directly.

Related Solutions

Hover and Scroll

I use AutoHotKey for this:

EasyWheel(d)
; if _WHEELAUTOFOCUS if set, check which window is under the mouse and gives it focus if it hasn't already
; then send scroll event to the control under the mouse
; original code from Shimanov: http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6772#54821
{
Global _WHEELACC
   , _WHEELMAXN
   , _WHEELAUTOFOCUS
Static t, s


   if ( A_TickCount > 500+t) {
      t := A_TickCount
      s :=0x780000
   }
   else if (s < _WHEELMAXN)
      s += _WHEELACC

   MouseGetPos x, y, hwnd
   h := DllCall("WindowFromPoint", "int", x, "int", y)
   if _WHEELAUTOFOCUS && (hwnd<>WinExist("A"))
      WinActivate, ahk_id %hwnd%
     testan:=WinActive("A")
    if (testan<>hwnd){
        SendMessage, 0x20A, d*s,(y<<16)|x,, ahk_id %h%
        }
        else if (d=-1){
        send {WheelDown}
        }else{
        send {WheelUp}
        }
}


WheelUp:: EasyWheel(1)
WheelDown:: EasyWheel(-1)