A concise history of Windows scroll bar behavior: classic vertical scroll bars provided five targets - two arrow buttons (line scroll), two gutter regions (page scroll), and a draggable thumb. Windows 7 added a right‑click context menu that exposed options corresponding to those existing actions (Top/Home, Bottom/End, Page Up, Page Down, Scroll Up/Down) plus one new command, "Scroll Here," which jumps the thumb to the clicked position. At the same time a hidden shortcut was introduced: Shift+click on the scroll bar also moves the thumb directly to the clicked spot, a faster way to traverse long documents without dragging.
That convenience has been eroded by framework fragmentation. Native Win32 controls historically supported the context menu and Shift+click, but many modern frameworks supply their own scroll bars. Chromium-based apps omit the context menu but implement Shift+click; WPF/XAML implements both; WinUI omits both; Qt exposes multiple switches so behavior depends on how an app is built (SH_ScrollBar_ContextMenu, SH_ScrollBar_LeftClickAbsolutePosition, SH_ScrollBar_MiddleClickAbsolutePosition). The result is that a useful, discoverable shortcut exists in principle, but in practice its availability varies widely across applications.
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