Logitech Optical Mouse Scrolling Problems

Question

New system: 4550 with plain-vanilla Dell/Logitech Optical mouse. Small problem is this... which ever portion of a window is active, scrolling works fine, but when i point over to a new area, can't scroll. Classic example: open up a web page with my favorites displayed on the left side. I can scroll in the main portion of the window but when i point over to the favs, i can't scroll (until i click on something, but then it goes to that web page..)

Any ideas??? Thanks in advance

Alan

DELL-Chris M · Answer

ahhyyes,

Thank you for using the Dell Community Forum (DCF).
If you are using a frames view in Internet Explorer, you have to make the frame active before you can scroll in it. Try right clicking the left frame, close the mouse menu that appears, then try to scroll.

devsk · Answer

Or install older version of Logitech drivers which allowed non-MS compliant scrolling i.e. allow point and scroll instead of click to focus and scroll. search for that original CD. I faced the same issue when I upgraded to latest logitech drivers and scrolling was not to my taste (seems to me that everything MS compliant is tasteless), so I reverted back to original drivers.

ahhyyes · Answer

Yep...that did the trick.  I now have 'Mouse-over scrolling' restored.  I notice we did pick up a bit of a 'coasting' issue, but that doesn't look like too big of a deal.   Thanks for the help.

PowerForward · Answer

**bump**

PowerForward · Answer

Can you tell me what Logitech drivers you went back to?  I have the newest 9.79 ones which don't allow mouse-over scrolling, and I tried my super old 8.0 drivers, which are just no good.  Somewhere in between there must be ones where you don't have to click on a frame first before you can scroll in it.

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