{"id":26841,"date":"2023-09-14T10:44:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T14:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=26841"},"modified":"2023-09-14T10:44:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T14:44:29","slug":"make-scrollbars-on-windows-10-or-windows-11-easier-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/make-scrollbars-on-windows-10-or-windows-11-easier-to-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Scrollbars on Windows 10 or Windows 11 Easier to See"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">Make Scrollbars on Windows 10 or Windows 11 Easier to See<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I just got a new laptop to replace my El Cheapo laptop. And setting up a new computer isn&#8217;t as hard as it used to be. But some things need to be adjusted if you&#8217;re getting old like I am. For instance, the mouse cursor and pointers on a new Windows 11 PC are tiny &#8211; it was annoying to have to look for them.\u00a0 But I looked up <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-change-your-mouse-pointer-and-text-cursor-to-make-them-easier-to-see\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">one of our handy tips<\/span><\/a><\/strong> and fixed that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And with a new computer, I was annoyed at how Windows, by default, hides scrollbars. The scrollbars on Windows 10 and Windows 11 are nearly invisible until you hover over them. While this is supposed to be a cool GUI feature, it makes scrollbars harder to see. But it&#8217;s easy to change if you know how.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"> Here&#8217;s how to make your scrollbars visible all the time, and much easier to see<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Windows 11<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">1. Press &amp; hold down the Windows key and tap the U key to open Accessibility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">2. In Windows 11 &gt;Settings &gt; Accessibility look under &#8220;Visual effects&#8221;. Next to &#8220;Always show scrollbars&#8221; turn the switch on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">See the screenshot below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"auto-style1\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2022\/scrollbars11.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"600\" height=\"751\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Windows 10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Press &amp; hold down the Windows key and tap the U key to open Ease of Access.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Under Ease of Access, locate the &#8220;Simplify and personalize Windows&#8221; section and turn the switch next to &#8220;Automatically hide scroll bars in Windows&#8221; to &#8220;Off&#8221;. See the screenshot below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"auto-style1\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2023\/scroll10.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"589\" height=\"582\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And that&#8217;s all there is to making scrollbars easier to see and your Windows a little less &#8220;cool&#8221; and a lot less frustrating.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Make Scrollbars on Windows 10 or Windows 11 Easier to See I just got a new laptop to replace my El Cheapo laptop. And setting up a new computer isn&#8217;t as hard as it used to be. But some things need to be adjusted if you&#8217;re getting old like I am. For instance, the mouse cursor\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/make-scrollbars-on-windows-10-or-windows-11-easier-to-see\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3948,4299,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26844,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26841\/revisions\/26844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}