Comments on: Windows 7 Tip — Make Scroll Bars, Windows Controls Bigger for Touch

By: Pete Wood

Pete Wood — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:18:44 +0000

Hi James – I agree with Kevin – you can increase the size of the buttons and scroll bar using native windows 7 functionality! Check this post to work through the layers of configuration…

http://voato.com/tech/windows/increase-the-button-size-on-windows-7-tablet-pcs

By: Benjamin Healey

Benjamin Healey — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:28:14 +0000

I had issues installing Origami Pack 2.0 on Windows 7. The installer I downloaded today wouldn’t let me proceed, because I wasn’t running ‘Vista on a UMPC’. Solution: Use UniExtract (or anything else, command line works too) to get the files out of the .msi installer. Run them separately, or copy them to program files and make your own shortcuts.
The Origami Pack is great! Kevin makes another great point (below this post). You may even want to add a few more pixels to the scroll bars, menus or title bars. Happy tweaking!

By: bluespapa

bluespapa — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:13:07 +0000

Wholly cow! I spent a couple of days looking for this! Indeed I changed color, but couldn't believe that they'd cut these options from W7 just to trim the size of the operating system! How did it slip past me? Life can be good! Kevin, when you first showed how to do this on XP Tablet, it was one of the most functional customizations I'd encountered! Thank heavens for archives, because I missed this the first time. Way to go, guys!

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:14:49 +0000

Is there any way either through personalization (manually setting the title bar/scroll bar settings)or through origami experience to apply the optimized settings when in tablet mode and use non optimized settings when in laptop mode. I use a convertible tablet and would like to have a separate set of settings for each mode and even a different set depending on portrait or landscape modes.

By: Faisal

Faisal — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:12:41 +0000

Plz help friends…

I can’t open personalisation in windows 7.
It saya “This page is not available in this edition of windows”

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:27:41 +0000

Kevin is definitely right. you can change sizes for the title bar and scroll bars and some other things using that dialog. i used this in vista to make the scroll bars fatter and easier to hit with me pen.

one nice thing is that you can reduce the stupid fat “border” of aero glass around your windows, to slim them down. adjust the “border padding” item in the dialog box Kevin mentioned.

By: Darwin

Darwin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:17:00 +0000

UPMC’s failed the first time. What is different now?

By: DaveTN

DaveTN — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:12:03 +0000

Hmmm…Been doing this on my Q1u-EL with win7 since I first installed the beta. Thought more people knew about it. Also works on my HP TX2500z quite well.

As a side note, I got the HP Touchsmart software working (albeit slowly) on the TX2500z.

Hey GoodThings2Life….same person on PPCGeeks? If so, THANKS for all your help. You have some great posts there! :-)

David

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:58:30 +0000

I’ll have to play with it. It’s not working for me on two different Win7 devices, the only ones I have to play with. The buttons stay the same height. Maybe OE is interfering, although I can turn it off fine and go back to normal.

I can make them bigger in the Advanced Appearance, but they stay the same height. This on both Aero and non-Aero.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:45:49 +0000

Just had a thought: your currently selected theme might require you hit the Advanced Appearance Settings in the Window Color dialog… it definitely works. My buttons are about an inch big right now! Ugh… must… reduce…. size….