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re: Mouse Scroll Problem With XP
Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 5:03 pm
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Posted by Rich Kurtz (12246 messages posted)


How long has this been happening? A quick Google search turned up a few cases where installing IE7 caused uncontrolled scrolling. Did you recently install IE7?

How does it behave if you boot to Safe Mode with Networking? If better then something is starting at boot that is causing the problem. Try the following:

First, physically disconnect from the Internet to prevent a malware infection while 
your Anti-virus and/or Firewall are disabled in the following steps, then do a normal 
boot:

Click on Start then Run, type msconfig and press Enter.
Click on the Startup tab and disable everything.
Do a regular  boot, see if it runs normal.
If yes then use msconfig to enable several items at a time till you find the culprit.

If no, click on the Services tab. Check the Hide All Microsoft Services box 
then disable what's left.
Again, do a regular  boot, see if it runs normal.
If yes then use msconfig to enable services till you find the culprit.
Reconnect to the Internet when done.

Once you've found the culprit, uninstall it or find out how to eliminate it form your system. Simply disabling it in msconfig is a temporary fix at best.


Written in response to:
re: Mouse Scroll Problem With XP (eskew: Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 2:58 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Mouse Scroll Problem With XP (eskew: Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 8:37 pm)
*re: Mouse Scroll Problem With XP (coryw: Monday, October 15, 2007 at 6:47 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Mouse Scroll Problem With XP (eskew: Sun, Oct 14, 2007, 8:04 am)
*re: Mouse Scroll Problem With XP (coryw: Sun, Oct 14, 2007, 11:16 am)
-re: Mouse Scroll Problem With XP (Rich Kurtz: Sun, Oct 14, 2007, 1:36 pm)
-re: Mouse Scroll Problem With XP (eskew: Sun, Oct 14, 2007, 2:58 pm)
-re: Mouse Scroll Problem With XP (Rich Kurtz: Sun, Oct 14, 2007, 5:03 pm)
*re: Mouse Scroll Problem With XP (eskew: Sun, Oct 14, 2007, 8:37 pm)
*re: Mouse Scroll Problem With XP (coryw: Mon, Oct 15, 2007, 6:47 am)
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