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What happened to my scroll bar?

Started by keysteele, Nov 22 2012 14:51

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#1 keysteele

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Posted 22 November 2012 - 14:51

I just recently noticed this, all my scroll bars look like this, see pic, in all my desktop programs. This is Windows 8 pro x64.Attached Image: 2012-11-22_093644.png

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#2 OP keysteele

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Posted 22 November 2012 - 15:03

Here's how it looks in Word

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Posted 22 November 2012 - 15:13

It looks like a typical Windows 8 style scrollbar to me.

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Posted 22 November 2012 - 15:14

and this...why are they so thin???? They were not like that last week.

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Posted 22 November 2012 - 15:21

View PostDonC, on 22 November 2012 - 15:13, said:

It looks like a typical Windows 8 style scrollbar to me.

I don't remember them being soo thin and small

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Posted 22 November 2012 - 15:29

In every other version of Windows you can alter the width of the scrollbar, usually in some sort of advanced settings of your style/theme. I've not used Windows 8 so they could have omitted that feature, but if your scrollbars are changing widths it's likely there is still an option there.
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