Why is the scroll bar in Windows 11 so narrow? In what world is this an improvement?

Marco offered the following options. Neither are acceptable to me.

> Open the Settings app.
> Navigate to Accessibility > Visual effects.
> Toggle the Always show scrollbars option to On. This will make the scroll bars more visible and slightly wider.

This does sort of work, but they are only SLIGHTLY wider, and still quite difficult to "grab" the active area.

> Otherwise, if you are a more advanced user, you can go to the registry to change the size.
> Open Registry Editor by typing regedit in the Run dialog (Win + R).
> Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics.
> Modify the ScrollHeight and ScrollWidth values. The default value is -225, which corresponds to 15 pixels. Increasing this value (e.g., to -450 for 30 pixels) will make the scroll bars wider.

Sadly, while this probably really helps a lot more than the first solution, it is useless to people whose organizations do not allow users to edit their registry, and won't make changes for them because it will create configuration control issues.

Microsoft REALLY screwed up with this. REALLY REALLY screwed the pooch.

I just check my old Windows 10 installation. Here, in the settings app, the scroll bar is a LINE (even thinner than Windows 11!) but when you move your mouse over it, it expands out to the full width and becomes quite useable. Why does Windows 11 not duplicate this functionality? It's even LESS "cluttered" than the half-a***d solution in Windows 11.

Also, one should never have to EDIT THE REGISTRY to fix something as trivial as this. You don't make users edit the registry for the font, do you, Microsoft? You let us change ICON sizes in the taskbar without going to the registry. WHY do you not make this kind of thing REALLY easy for users to change? It's unacceptable. Get your act together, please.

Finally, somewhere in this thread someone wrote that something along the lines of "Why are you even using scroll bars? Just use the mouse scroll wheel." Well, when you have a spreadsheet with 10,000+ lines, playing with the scroll wheel is a joke. You'll be there for 10 minutes and get carpal tunnel really quick.

This fix worked. I understand the scroll wheel up and down but when its the left to right having a skinny bar is useless so have reverted back to the wider that is far more user friendly

Which one did it help to resize if not Explorer? I have a disability. Wait until they decide to let AI "minimalize" everything not just overly zelous developers, we will be determined not to be needed to be around anymore.

"Windows 11 aims to provide a sleek and modern user interface. Narrower scroll bars contribute to a cleaner and less cluttered appearance, which is in line with current design trends that emphasize minimalism."

Good, let's all eat roach powder...it's minimalism too. Makes you think voting and what companies you buy from matter.