How do I get smooth scrolling?

[m8E]

I'm using XP and whenever I scroll up or down using the mouse or scroll bar I get like a jumping effect on the screen which really does my eyes in! How do I get smooth scrolling?

~Thanx~

[Sie Tjin Kian]

Hi m8e,

use TweakUI - look for a feature called "smooth scrolling" and activate it - thats all.

Or use regedit under

HKEY_USERS\"Your User Profile"\Control Panel\Desktop\

her you will find/create a REG_Binary with the name "SmoothScroll" and a value of

01 00 00 00 for active smooth scrolling or

00 00 00 00 for inactive.

Have a nice day..

[m8E]

Hi Sie Tjin Kian, thanks for your suggestions. I'm having trouble finding TweakUI, how do I find it?

Also because I couldn't find TweakUI I've checked out the registry way to change scrolling and HKEY_USERS was easily found, however, "Your User Profile" was nowhere to be found at all. \Control Panel\Desktop\ was found at this location: HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop\ but even there SmoothScroll was not found, but in the location HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics\ there were some binery type numbers but no SmoothScroll.

Does this make any sense

[XtremeMaC]

try hkey_current_user

and u couldn't find tweak ui? where did u look?

cause its a very popular program and any search engine is able to come up with a result!!!

first official link would be microsoft's own dl. go learn how to use google.!

i've found this

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\ListBoxSmoothScrolling

[m8E]

Thanks XtremeMaC

i've found this HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\ListBoxSmoothScrolling

Two files were found in that folder, one with binary numbers which is DefaultApplied which I right clicked and then clicked on 'Modify Binary Data' which brought up the 'Edit Binary Value' box which had the value 01 00 00 00 already in it. At the moment I've not actually changed anything there.

I didn't actually know what TweakUI was until I read it here so initially I was looking for it on my computer which is why it wasn't found, however I have now downloaded and installed it.... one small problem I can't find any smooth scrolling tweaks!

[CECSmoky21]

You may have already done this, and if so just ignore me, but that can also be caused by your video drivers. Make sure you have the newest ones released.

[m8E]

Thanks for your suggestion CECSmoky21, I've not tried that yet. I will have to disable the firewall etc to do that though I think, which can be a bit of a slow drag.

I can't find any smooth scrolling tweaks!

upon better inspection I've found the smooth scrolling, it was the 7th box down under 'Explorer', however it was already checked, so I un-checked it to see if it made any difference and it hasn't!

[XtremeMaC]

might this be it?

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VisualEffects\ListBoxSmoothScrolling]
"Type"="checkbox"
"Text"="@shell32.dll,-30544"
"SPIActionGet"=dword:00001006
"SPIActionSet"=dword:00001007
"CheckedValue"=dword:00000001
"UncheckedValue"=dword:00000000
"DefaultValue"=dword:00000001
"HelpID"="windows.hlp#51140"

also this seems to get modified as well

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"SmoothScroll"=dword:00000001

[m8E]

Thanks XtremeMaC, I've just looked in the registry and it's all the same as you've shown above.

I'm not sure what to do now any ideas anyone?

[m8E]

Could it be when Windows XP was istalled on the computer that the smooth scrolling option wasn't chosen, and so now smooth scrolling is hard to achieve?

Just a far flung thought

[m8E]

My scrolling is still jumping like mad. Anyone got any new ideas?