Windows 10 Annoying back snapping of the scroll slider

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Hi!
When I’m working in a window of File Explorer or a random application and I want to scroll up/down or left/right in this window with the mouse, the scroll slider snaps back to the starting position when I move the mouse pointer beyond a certain distance of the slider.
See this example.

Why is that? It’s quite annoying.

In macOS I can move the mouse pointer wherever I want on the screen without this snapping of the scroll slider.


I'm not the only one with this annoyance.
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These examples show that this issue is quite old.
You see in the 5th example that Windows draws an invisible square around the scroll bar area. This area contains a fixed amount of pixels. When the mouse pointer leaves this area while dragging the scroll slider the back snapping occurs.
I've worked many years on a 22" screen with 1680 x 1050 pixels. Now I use a 27" QHD monitor containing 2560 x 1440 pixels. Since the pixels on the new monitor are smaller, the 'safe area' around the scroll bar is also smaller. I noticed that the back snapping occurs far more often than on the 22" screen.


I know it is possible in Windows 10 to drag the scroll slider without this back snapping, because the scroll slider of a random Windows Settings window proves this. For example: Press Win + I and choose Apps. No problem here.
I cannot find in Windows Settings an option to 'unsnap' the scroll slider. (Maybe my request must be altered in the Registry.)


Can someone help me to solve this issue?


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