What happened to my scroll bar?

[keysteele 4]

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.

[keysteele 4]

Here's how it looks in Word

[+DonC 502]

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

[keysteele 4]

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

[keysteele 4]

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

I don't remember them being soo thin and small

[+jamesyfx 362]

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.