How to change the look or appearance of scrollbars in windows XP

[samborichie]

I am trying to change the color or contrast in scrollbars cause I can-t see the current position (difficult to find). I have read that themes overwrite the value in regedit.

What I did is this...

Win+R,
regedit,
HKEY USERS,
s 1 5 19,
Control Panel
Colors
Right there I changed the numbers of 'scrollbar' (¿RGB?) 186 105 20

[Simond]

Well, Windows XP visual themes use graphics rather than shapes and colours so you'll have to gain access to the resource file, edit the scrollbar graphic and then recompile. I won't go into the specifics but if you download a free program called "ResEdit" by searching it on google and then open the resource file which is c:\windows\resources\themes\lunaX.msstyles. Just save your edited style out under a different name then click on its icon. This will call up the properties page so that you can save the theme out.

[samborichie]

Ok, THANK YOU.