Sorry, no solution, but a question. . .

I have a similar annoyment (new word?) with the (file) Explorer left pane, specifically 90% of the time clicking a +box or -box essentially does 2 clicks, resulting in the same state of the list (but moved to make it really annoying) as it was. Are you experiencing anything like that? [I too have this only on a Win98 SE, more or less up-to-date, PC]. 2 others, WinME and Win2K are fine.

I just tried to try what you describe and I don't have THAT happen here on the same machine.
I opened a 90 page Word97 document, placed the pointer on the down-arrowed scroll button down the right side and held it for 6-8 seconds. It acted as I would have expected and as soon as I lifted my finger scrolling stopped.

My mouse in IntelliMouse Explorer model connected via PS/2 port.

JimN

>Thanks for the response, Al. I think the most relevant question is the OS, which is Win98.
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>Happens in all apps
>Mouse is MS Ps/2 mouse
>Os Win98 SE
>No 3rd party mouse driver in use
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>And yes, I did look in control panel and play with accessibility, and nothing seemed to fix it.
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>I strongly believe that this is a "feature" of windows with a setting, because I do recall seeing it before on other machines, and the behavior is very consistent and seems like the annoying kind of useless feature windows would have.
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>.>>Does anyone know how to turn off the automatic scrolling feature of windows? I'm not sure if that's the name for it - when I click on the up or down arrows of a scroll bar for more than a second or two, the scrolling takes on a life of its own and just keeps scrolling and scrolling and scrolling and scrolling and I can't stop it! It's driving me nuts. It just started happening - I must have done something to cause it to happen.
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>>Here's a classic example of a post where we could sure use some more information:
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>>- does it happen in all apps, or just some?
>>- make/model of mouse
>>- your OS
>>- extended or 3rd party mouse driver in use
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>>You could start by looking in Control Panel...Mouse (or 3rd party equivalent). Also make sure no Accessibility features are inadvertently enabled (if applicable).
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>>If the problem is app-specific, check its setup/configuration features.