Now you open another program such as This PC. At this time your web browser window is active window. Suppose you are visiting a website in your web browser. To better understand this feature, I’ll give an example. Microsoft added this helpful feature to Windows 10 exclusively. Users had to use 3rd party software to enable this feature in old Windows versions. This feature was not present in previous Windows versions such as Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1.
They just need to move mouse cursor over inactive windows and then they can scroll over them using mouse wheel or arrow keys. Users don’t need to click on inactive program windows. It allows users to scroll inactive program windows using mouse wheel or arrow keys on keyboard by just hovering over them. This feature is called “ Inactive Window Scrolling“. She told me that it was happening frequently and most of the times it happened when she tried to use mouse wheel to scroll in the active window.Īctually it is a feature which comes built-in with Windows 10 operating system. inactive windows started scrolling up and down automatically in her computer.
While working on a document or browsing websites in web browser, suddenly the background program windows i.e.
She was having an annoying problem in Windows 10 operating system. Recently an AskVG reader “Alina” asked me about this issue.
