…and I’m not talking about Porsche’s new gearbox, either.
Consider this, which arrived on my recently-acquired laptop w/Windows 11:
It’s the scrolling button on the extreme right of any open window, and Alert Readers will no doubt have realized that it replaced the old square one that we all grew up with.
I have two questions about this shrunken silliness.
Firstly, as any fule kno, I use a Logitech Ergo Trackball:
…whose giant “thumb ball” controller gives one plenty of ability to steer the pointer over to the tiny space in the top right-hand side of the window with relative ease. How do people achieve the same goal using the sloppy and imprecise finger pad of a laptop?
Secondly, and this is a question for the propeller-heads out there: is there any way one can change the shape / size of the scrolling thingy back to its old appearance? (I’d bet there isn’t because Microsoft, but I’ll gladly be proved wrong in this case.)
I get by okay with the LogiTech mouse, but even so it’s not as easy as it used to be, which irritates the shit out of me, and I can’t be the only one thus affected.
As always with Microsoft, change seems to come not only unrequested and generally unwanted, but also in such a manner that it requires considerable effort to manage it.
This article says it helps with that.
I’m still on Win10, my scrollbars are tiny, and I don’t have that “accessibility” option in my settings, and the registry hack did nothing for edge (it made the bars bigger in my Windows Explorer, but not in my browsers).
Still and all… maybe it will help you on Win11 — https://www.groovypost.com/howto/make-scroll-bars-wider-in-windows-11/
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I also use a mouse with my Laptop as I find the touch pad to annoying because of the way my hands sit on the kety. I windup inadvertently touching the pad. So I turn it off.
I use a mouse too, but you can turn off that touch pad? Never thought of trying that. Thanks!
There’s usually no need to hit the scrollbar with the pointer because the scroll wheel on the trackball should scroll the window.
The size of the scroll is now proportional to the size of the page: that it’s so tiny indicates a huge page.
Nope. No matter how small you make the page, the scroll button stays tiny.
They don’t try to use the drag handle. They use a two-finger swipe gesture which triggers to scroll wheel.
I am guessing not. Microsquash CEO just announced that 30% of their programming is done by AI…you aren’t getting anything back that you like.