Windows Vista/7 have introduced a new feature called dynamic multi-dimensional scrolling. I’ve found it pretty annoying as a developer when the full path of code files can be quite long in which it triggers the auto horizontal scrolling in eclipse.

Couple of months ago, I’ve found a work around to disable this feature in Windows 7.

The trick was to change the Compatibility Mode for eclipse.exe to Windows XP.

*Note: If you don’t want to apply the compatibility change all the time. You may create a Windows shortcut to eclipse.exe, and apply the compatibility update on the shortcut file.