Windows 10: Hard to see scroll bars, how to increase without high contrast theme?

I find the grey on grey scroll bars in win10 kind of hard to see, especially in a browser with a page that has a lot of scrolling. Is there any way I can fix this? The only options Ive found is using high contrast theme in win10 (which is very ugly and not really usable).

Ive seen post on MS websites about this and their tech just laugh it off and tell people to leave them alone (aka submit feedback if you are able to within the OS).

Is there anyway to apply high contrast only to the scroll bar or any fix for this? Back in the day there was an addon for firefox that allowed me to use custom scrollbar colors, but those addons are no longer possible (and only made firefox look better) *Sad

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High Contrast Themes Issue

Hi,

Thank you for posting your response.

Which Is the latest build installed in your computer?

To check the latest build installed in your computer
Press Windows key + R and type winver.

Follow the Methods below and check.

Method 1: I suggest you to follow the steps below and check if it helps.

1. Press “Windows + U” to open
ease of access center.

2. Select Set up High contrast and customize as you required.

Method 2: Please follow the steps mentioned below:

• Right click on the desktop and select Personalize.
• Select Themes and click on Themes settings.
• Select any Windows default theme and check with the issue.

Do let us know if your computer display is back to normal. Thank you.

 

High Contrast Themes Issue

Hi,

Follow the steps below and check if that helps.

Step 1: To Adjust Brightness

• Take your mouse pointer to the right flank of the taskbar and hit the Notification icon.

• 
  Press Expand if the lower part of the Action center is shrunken.
  

• The light icon under which percentage of the brightness at present is written avails you the platform from where you can control the brightness.
• Clicking the Brightness icon either increase or decrease the brilliance of your system screen by 25%. Hence, you are pretty efficient to adjust the brightness on Windows 10 machine from this location.

Step 2: To Adjust Brightness through Settings.

• 
  Take your mouse pointer to the
  Settings icon located at the lower part of the start menu.
  
• 
  Hit System.
  
• 
  Toggle the Brightness level slider to
  Adjust Brightness on Windows 10 Desktop.
  

2. To Adjust Brightness and Contrast both from the same Platform

1. Click Cortana search at the
taskbar using the mouse.

2. Write the text
Calibrate display color in the Cortana search box and click the same on the Start Menu.

3. On Display Color Calibration window, click
Next button at the bottom to proceed further.

4. A new window called
Set basic color settings appears on the screen. Again Click Next button.

5. Similarly, you get another windowHow to adjust gamma and click Next button to continue.

6. Adjust gamma window prompts. Set the gamma color settings by sliding up or down (as you prefer) the gamma sliders. When you drag the slider upward brightness of your
desktop enhances and when pull it downward brightness decreases. This is the center step to adjust brightness so perform carefully. Press
Next button.

7. Then you will see the Find the brightness and contrast controls for your display. Tap on
Skip brightness and contrast adjustment if you want to avoid the adjustment of brightness and contrast.

Otherwise, you only click Next button to open the window
How to adjust brightness.

8. In the How to adjust brightness window, you can see three examples of brightness pictures each labelled with
too dark, good brightness, and too bright. Click
Next button.

9. Use the controls of your display to increase or reduce the brightness until you clearly see the given picture. (There are many ways to set the brightness. You can do it with your
keyboard keys, from the action center or from the
Settings app also).

10. After adjusting the brightness, click
Next button.

11. Now, you will be explained
How to adjust the contrast. Here also you will be shown three instances of
Not enough contrast, good contrast and too much contrast. Click
Next.

12. The following screen will tell you to use the contrast controls of your display to adjust the contrast. Well, presently there are no toggles to adjust contrast and also most of the laptops do not provide
a key to adjust contrast. But if needed, you can set a high contrast theme. Read the below sub-points to set high contrast theme or go to point number 13.

• 
  With the
  Ease of Access under Control Panel, you can choose a high contrast theme.
  
• 
  So, when you are into the
  Ease of Access window, click Make the computer easier to see.
  
• 
  This takes you to another window where you can see
  High Contrast section. Now to set a high contrast theme, jointly pressleft Alt, left Shift and
  PrtSc keys.
  
• 
  A separate dialog box of
  High Contrast will emerge asking for your confirmation. Click
  Yes and you can see everything changed into high contrast.
  
• 
  A separate dialog box of
  High Contrast will emerge asking for your confirmation. Click
  Yes and you can see everything changed into high contrast.
  
• 
  To get back to the previous settings of contrast theme, again press
  left Alt, left Shift and PrtScn keys.
  

13. Click Next button until you get the window called How to adjust color balance.

14. In the window
How to adjust color balance, hit the Next button to go further window.

15. Here, you will notice another window
Adjust color balance. In this window, you have the option to adjust the primary colors like
red, blue and green by sliding these (right or left) with mouse according to your need. After you optimize the colors press the
Next button.

16. Finally, click Finish button to save the current color calibration settings on your Windows 10 desktop.

Do let us know if you still face issue with screen brightness. Thank you.

 

how to turn off high contrast

Hi,

Follow these steps on how to turn high contrast mode on or off in Windows:

• Type "high contrast settings" in the search box, and then select High contrast settings from the list of results.
• Under Choose a theme, select a high contrast theme from the drop-down menu, and then select Apply.
• To turn off high contrast mode, select None from the drop-down menu, and then select Apply.
• To turn high contrast mode on or off from the sign-in screen, select the Ease of Access button in the lower-right corner and choose High Contrast.
• To turn high contrast on or off from the keyboard, press left Alt + left Shift + Print
  Screen.

Keep us updated with the result.