Hints & help

Scroll bar width

In Windows 11 the width of scroll bars might be very slim so that scroll bars cannot be operated properly. Via the registry editor you can customize the width of the scroll bars. To do so, proceed as follows:

    1. Press the Windows key and the R key of your keyboard to call up the “Run” dialog box.
    2. Enter “regedit” in the search field.
    3. Click on the “OK” button to call up the registry editor.
    4. In the directory structure, navigate to “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics” and click on it.
    5. In the right pane, double-click on “ScrollWidth”. Following this, the corresponding dialog box appears.
    6. Enter the desired value for the width of vertical scroll bars in the input field and click on the “OK” button. Following this, the dialog box closes.
    7. In the right pane, double-click on “ScrollHeight”. Following this, the corresponding dialog box appears.
    8. Enter the desired value for the width of horizontal scroll bars in the input field and click on the “OK” button. Following this, the dialog box closes.
    9. Sign out of your Windows user account (Cmd + Alt + Del).
    10. Sign back in. After signing in again, the scroll bar width is adjusted according to your settings.

Display of scroll bars

Under Windows 11 it can happen, that in Firefox the scroll bars of product data tables aren’t shown if the number of attributes exceeds tha height of the display area. Possible solutions are:

Solution 1

  1. Call up Firefox.
  2. Enterabout:config in the address bar to access the advanced settings.
  3. Search for widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled .
  4. If the status “false” is not set already, click on Switch .
  5. Restart Firefox.

Solution 1

Windows 11 offers the following solution:

  1. Call up the system settings of Windows.
  2. Go to the “Accessibility” section.
  3. Select the menu item “Visual effects”.
  4. Under “Always show scroll bars”, move the toggle switch to the “On” position (On).

Scaling

If the scaling in Windows is set to 125%, it can happen that directory structures in dialog boxes are not displayed entirely. In order to adjust the scaling, for example in Windows 10, proceed as follows:

  1. Call up the system settings of Windows.
  2. Go to the “System” section.
  3. Select the menu item “Screen”.
  4. Select a scaling factor from the menu. Following this, the scaling adjusts according to your settings.

Use the Google Chrome spell check

You can use the spell check of Google Chrome to check entered text for typos and spelling errors. In order to activate the spell check, proceed as follows:

  1. Call up Google Chrome.
  2. Click on the button on the right side of theAction menuadress bar in order to call up the menu.
  3. Click on the menu item “Settings”.
  4. Click on the menu item “Languages”.
  1. Navigate to the “Spellchecking” section.
  2. Active the checking for spelling errors when typing in text by moving the corresponding toggle switch to the On position.
  3. Select the languages for which a spell check shall be done by moving the respective toggle switches to the On position.
  4. Leave the settings. Following this, entered text is checked for typos and spelling errors with errors being underlined in red.
Note
This section explains the spell check is activated in the Google Chrome version 120.0.6099.71.