{"id":30624,"date":"2025-08-12T09:28:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=30624"},"modified":"2025-08-12T09:28:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:28:55","slug":"lets-make-those-nearly-invisible-scrollbars-easier-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/lets-make-those-nearly-invisible-scrollbars-easier-to-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Make Those Nearly Invisible Scrollbars Easier to See"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Let&#8217;s Make Those Nearly Invisible Scrollbars Easier to See<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">By design, Windows 10 and 11 make scrollbars nearly invisible until you hover over them. While this is supposed to be a cool GUI feature, it makes scrollbars harder to see, and many find it annoying. You\u2019ll be glad to know it\u2019s easy to make scroll bars more visible in both Windows 10 and Windows 11.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong> To make your scrollbars visible all the time, and easier to see, do this\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Windows 11<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">1. Press &amp; hold down the Windows key and tap the U key to open Accessibility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">2. In Windows 11 &gt;Settings &gt; Accessibility, look under \u201cVisual effects\u201d. Next to \u201cAlways show scrollbars,\u201d turn the switch on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">See the screenshot below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><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-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Windows 10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Press &amp; hold down the Windows key and tap the U key to open Ease of Access.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Under Ease of Access, locate the \u201cSimplify and personalize Windows\u201d section and turn the switch next to \u201cAutomatically hide scroll bars in Windows\u201d to \u201cOff\u201d. See the screenshot below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"auto-style1\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2022\/scrollbars10.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"589\" height=\"582\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">And that\u2019s all there is to making scrollbars easier to see and your Windows a little less \u201ccool\u201d but more functional.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Let&#8217;s Make Those Nearly Invisible Scrollbars Easier to See By design, Windows 10 and 11 make scrollbars nearly invisible until you hover over them. While this is supposed to be a cool GUI feature, it makes scrollbars harder to see, and many find it annoying. You\u2019ll be glad to know it\u2019s easy to make scroll bars more\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/lets-make-those-nearly-invisible-scrollbars-easier-to-see\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3948,4299,10,1961],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30624"}],"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=30624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30625,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30624\/revisions\/30625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}