Thanks for the replies. Sadly none of then removed the scroll-smoothing of the Notepad.

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This changed the behavior of the scrolling everywhere, but not Notepad and some other Apps.

Follow the below steps to disable the smooth scrolling and check if it helps.

1. Go to Search and type sysdm.cpl and press Enter.
2. In the System Properties window Click on the Advanced tab
3. Click on Settings button under Performance
4. In Visual Effects tab of Performance Options window, click the Custom radio button.
5. Uncheck Smooth-scroll list boxes.

This didn't do anything at all at Notepad. Nothing changed, but thanks for the sysdm.cpl advice, there are some really good things that I didn't know of!
I think this setting changed the behavior of scrolling in many other places, but not Notepad.


I really hope that this "smooth" scrolling is not coming from the Notepad App itself.
It seems like, the new Apps are completely unaffected and separate from any Windows setting.
It kind of seems like it, because in my Edge, Task Manager, and many other Apps there is not such behavior ("smooth" scrolling), while this behavior happens in certain "Microsoft Store" Apps, such as Notepad and the Settings App.
If that is the case, it needs to be changed in the App itself, but there is no such setting at all.

 

Follow the below steps to disable the smooth scrolling and check if it helps.

1. Go to Search and type sysdm.cpl and press Enter.
2. In the System Properties window Click on the Advanced tab
3. Click on Settings button under Performance
4. In Visual Effects tab of Performance Options window, click the Custom radio button.
5. Uncheck Smooth-scroll list boxes.

 

Apparently MS is "working on it" and suggests that you keep updating the Notepad app until it gets it right.

Windows 11's new Notepad is apparently slower than the original Win32 app

Microsoft apparently made the refreshed Notepad available for all Windows 11 users a few weeks ago after testing it with a limited set of users. The new Notepad matches the refreshed look of the operating system. Similar to Paint and other Office apps, it has been updated with a Fluent Design...

www.windowslatest.com

I just skimmed through a devblog where some software engineers were talking about this. It seems that MS has implemented a new coding strategy in Notepad for Win 11. After discussing what they didn't like about the new Win 11 Notepad for a hundred pages or so the thread's participants decided to just scrap it and go with the third-party replacement Notepad++ instead.

Notepad++

notepad-plus-plus.org

 

Thanks, that is a good information.
About Notepad++ though, I already use it, but I use the normal Notepad for actual Notes.
Notepad++ is too professional and kind of too specific for file editing in that case.

 

I may have seen a FADAC, it would have been mid 1970's. I also saw how Army AG was already using antique computers. Around 1972, I was a teen volunteer in a hospital and they had IBM terminals at every department and nursing station; how patients got checked in, and all orders entered for tests, meds, etc. I was already interested in computers; that increased my interest.

I call Windoze 11 the New 8. Such a smelly pile of bugs and bad GUI design. As a programmer years ago, I specialized in making easy to use interfaces as I came to understand that otherwise, end users, such as account managers in big banks, wouldn't touch the systems written for them unless they were very easy to use. First 2 computers I ever bought were Amiga's, far better then the early IBM PC's I sometimes had to use.

We have one 11 based laptop, a warranty replacement for one that ran 10. First thing I added was Start11, which hides some of the worst of 11. We recently had a huge problem - video cutting out every 15 seconds or so - Microsloth October updates were apparently not compatible with fairly recent Nvidia drivers. The laptop came with 11 22H2 installed, sadly. A new heap of bugs on top of the previous 11 and older bugs. I know, each new Windoze version or feature update (besides one like the supposed 10 22H2 nothing update) is essentially an Alpha release, moving towards Beta quality after 6 to 24 months.

I quickly found 11 to be nasty. The destroyed task bar. The removed toolbars including QuickLaunch. The incompatibilities with lots of older software that was fine under 10. The TPM 2 that, as I understand it, is not encrypted and adds little or nothing to security. 11 was clearly released years before it was ready, IMHO. Like you, I hope that 12 undoes a lot of the mess from 11.

 

First thing I added was Start11, which hides some of the worst of 11.

I've been using Start11 since it was Start8. It's the best four bucks I've ever spent on software. You can create your own similar interface using open-source software but why bother.

 

I am using 22H2 and it's a complete catastrophe.
Recently I created a list of things that don't work like they did in 21H2, but I got tired of always writing things down, because they were so many.

Literally, in every single detail is something not working correctly, or acting weirdly.
It's a complete surprise what happens next. Right now all my desktop icons are broken and show weird icons of randrom software.

Before that, I had a Explorer window in front of all other windows, and I simply couldn't get it behind other windows.
When I minimized it, it became small, and when I clicked it back, it just got into front of all other windows again.
Other thing that I got is, I have a folder that I always keep in "small icons" view, and it always changes back to "details" view for no reason at all.
Sometimes my Explorer freezes, restarts and all desktop icons are scattered around.
My USB devices get randomly disconnected and reconnect.
Talking about USB devices: I can't safely eject them anymore. I need to do a full shutdown for that, or just take the risk and unplug it.
I have a folder with about 200 mixed files. Explorer takes about 2 seconds to open it, and if I try clicking while these 2 seconds, it will crash the whole Explorer, and guess what - scatter the whole desktop icons again all around.

The text above, you think it is from 1 month experience? Or from 1 week?
No. It is what happened TODAY.
None of this behavior was in 21H2, all worked flawless before.

I can't believe that I am still on 22H2. I should have rolled back already days ago.

 

After reviewing your "problems", let's take a look at your System Specs. Even though there are minimums for Windows 11, higher resources are often needed for full use.

 

The main device is a Samsung Galaxy Book S, running Windows 11 on ARM.
All was fine, until 22H2 got installed by using the usual system update.

 

In a few more years, by the time 12 comes, 11 should be almost ready for wide release. But not liked.

 

See this: Windows Arm-based PCs FAQ - Microsoft Support and scroll to Limitations.

 

See this: Windows Arm-based PCs FAQ - Microsoft Support and scroll to Limitations.

Thanks for the link, but there is nothing that really applies to me.

Drivers for hardware, games and apps will only work if they're designed for a Windows 11 Arm-based PC
I am only using software that came natively with Windows 11.
Adding to this I am using some non-ARM software: WinRAR, Microsoft Office, Notepad++. Ironically these are the only programs that still run without problems after updating to 22H2.

Certain games won’t work
I don't play games on this device.

Apps that customize the Windows experience might have problems
I am using a native, clean Windows installation without any tweaking.

Some third-party antivirus software can’t be installed
I am using Defender.

Windows Fax and Scan isn’t available
Already realized that. What a shame.


It is the 22H2 update, nothing else is wrong.
Not even Windows 11 is the problem. After updating from Windows 10 to Windows 11 all worked fine. At that time Samsung even recommended getting Windows 11 after it released.
Until a few days ago, before I updated to 22H2, all was working flawless, and now I encounter weird behavior, broken software in every single thing I do.
And to be exact, I think it is the new Explorer that is broken. About 9 of 10 things that are wrong with my laptop, the Explorer is the reason.
It's funny, because the new Explorer with these fancy tabs is the actual reason why I got 22H2 in the first place.

 

You have an 8 Core Processor. There have been some problems solved for Windows 11 by disabling some of the cores. I'm not suggesting doing that. I am suggesting you be patient until more bugs are worked out. I was skeptical at first, but now believe the Microsoft alternate versions of Windows theory might apply to 11. Like 98 good,ME bad,XP good, Vista bad, 7 good, 8 and 8.1 bad, 10 good.

 

I was skeptical at first, but now believe the Microsoft alternate versions of Windows theory might apply to 11. Like 98 good,ME bad,XP good, Vista bad, 7 good, 8 and 8.1 bad, 10 good.

I totally agree on this.
I witnessed most of the Windows OS releasing. Up to Windows 8 I already kind of believed that, but it still sounded a bit silly to me, and more like coincidences.
But now with Windows 11, I finally think it's true, though I think there is some logic behind it.

But I want to defend Windows 11 here for a moment:
It's defintive not a Windows 8 or Vista.
When I got Windows 11 21H2 at first, it was great. I even got better performence after upgrading from Windows 10.
The whole OS isn't even so much different from Windows 10 from user point of view, but most of the things that came were good in my opinion.
Even the 22H2 I want to defend here, because the tab feature in Explorer is super good. Since updating, I used it the whole time already.

Still these problems that happen all the time are extremely annoying.
And some of the new Windows Apps really have been changed in a way which I don't like (like the Notepad "smooth scrolling")

And for now: Yes, I will have to wait for bugs to be fixed. Even though I often think about rollback, it is no option for me, because with most updates come performence updates for ARM, which I definitively always gladly take for that specific device.

 

Hello,

writing this in January 2025, i had the same problem: wanting to disable SmoothScrolling in the Windows-Editor.

.) I disabled "smooth scrolling on list boxes" in the windows settings
.) i tried disabling "mouse over disabled windows"
.) i tried the registry hack (Adding "SmoothScrolling=0" to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop)

Nothing worked, Windows Editor still insists to scroll smoothly (as does the Start Menu (the one with the alphabetical sorting) and the Items in the Windows-Settings-Menu, but NOT the windows explorer, and neither the registry editor, interestingly enough).

The best advice i have to give at this point (at least for the editor-situation):

Switch to Notepad++.

Sad but true.

When MS-Apps force something down your throat, theres alternatives for almost everything.

Cheers,

Mike