Scroll bars going wacko?

[Shirl Kennedy]

I've seen this on a couple machines -- typically older, slower Pentiums --
at a place where I've been doing some contract work.  Our leading theory --
unproven at this point -- is that it has something to do with outdated video
drivers that gag on the graphical demands of the 4.X browsers and Office 97
apps.  You may want to check the Web site of your PC and/or video card
vendor and see if there are updated drivers available for download.

Shirl Kennedy
Internet Waves columnist
Information Today

-----Original Message-----
From: A. Helfman <helfman at huc.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
Date: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: Scroll bars going wacko?


>At 12:57 PM 3/11/1998 -0800, you wrote:
>>On my Win95 computer using Navigator 4.04 I get occasional
>>incidences (at least 1x a day) where the scroll bar takes off
>>whenever my mouse comes near it.  This is usually followed by the
>>scroll area becoming nearly an inch wide!
>>
>>If I go to a new page it will go away.
>>
>>Has anyone seen this?
>
> Yes, it happened to me when I first got my new machine (a Pentium 200-MMX)
>running Windows95.  It would happen suddenly both in Netscape and in
Eudora.
>
> I never got any explanation of how or why it was happening.  I suspected
>that it had something to do with the fact that I'd crudely removed Internet
>Explorer, but I have no proof of this.  I eventually had to re-install
>Win95 on account of another problem I was having with configuration, and
>since I did the "clean" install of Win95 (in which I left IE alone), I have
>not had the problem since.
>
> I hate to post something that sounds more like superstition than technical
>advice, but I am glad to see that I wasn't the only person to experience
>this problem.  I'd love to see a better explanation and/or solution, if
>anyone can provide one!
>
>
>Amy W. Helfman        Judaica Librarian         HUC-JIR, NY
>helfman at huc.edu              http://www.albany.edu/~helfman