How to Resize and Change Vista Desktop Icons Size

Do you find the icon size on Vista desktop too big or too small? The effect of visual appearance on shortcuts and programs icons is more stark when users adjust and change the monitor screen resolution or font size in DPI scaling, where the icons size becomes bigger and smaller to an uncomfortable level.

Users can easily resize Vista desktop icons or change the size of icons on Vista desktop. There are two methods to resize the desktop icons – classic normal way and trivial way, depending on your preference and also the ’size’ that you want to change the icons to.

How to Resize Vista Desktop Icons – Normal Method

It’s pretty simple. Simply right click any empty blank space on desktop, and select View in the contextual menu pops up. In the sub-menu, select Classic Icons for smallest icon size, Medium Icons for default icon size, or Large Icons for largest icon size.

Vista Desktop Icon Size

How to Change Icons to Any Size in Vista Desktop via Trivial Way

Press and hold down the CTRL key on the keyboard, then scroll the mouse scroll whell or trackball in the middle to resize the desktop icons size. Scroll up for larger size or down for smaller size. Best advantage is that you can select many out-of-range or intermediary sizes which not selectable in the menu.

If you can’t get the trick to work, click on any empty space on desktop once to get focus on desktop itself.

Note that the hack only change icon size, but not the font size.


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9 Responses to “How to Resize and Change Vista Desktop Icons Size”

  1. Eric Hampton
    July 4th, 2009 09:28
    9

    Prunella, I don’t know what happened, but it all works fine on Vista. No generic Es or anything… It adjusts to custom size and all the custom icons are still there.

  2. Rein
    April 22nd, 2009 16:53
    8

    Simple but very useful.
    Thanks

  3. unknown
    March 17th, 2009 02:40
    7

    ok all my icons are the exact size i want but everything else on my computer is big how can i change everything back to normal?

  4. No Valentine for Microsoft « New Cambridge Observer
    February 16th, 2009 01:39
    6

    [...] If your icons are large because of a setting, then try the following — http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/12/09/how-to-resize-and-change-vista-desktop-icons-size/ [...]

  5. Margaret Bambrick
    January 26th, 2009 14:42
    5

    Is it possible to change the size of the print (font) when printing from a page where it doesn’t give you that option. For instance I printed an airline itinerary from the webside and the print was so small that it was difficult to read. Please advise as to how I go about this. Thanks so much for your help. I am so old and there is so much to learn.

  6. mary
    January 18th, 2009 16:35
    4

    My cat sat on my laptop, somehow changing all icons and programs into big icons and font (so that parts of my games go outside the borders and Word is automatically about 130%)! How can I readjust this?

  7. Brian
    June 14th, 2008 14:35
    3

    THANK YOU!

    I was using the classic menu to change icon sizes and it created all kinds of problems with 120 DPI. This solved all the problems I was having. Wish I found this site sooner!

  8. not required
    May 16th, 2008 13:27
    2

    Right click (mouse button) on empty space on desktop. Left click “Personalize”. Left Click “Window color ans Appearance”. Left click “Open classic appearance properties for more color options”. An appearance settings window should now appear (looks very much like XP). Left click the “Advanced” button. Advanced Appearance window pops up. look for “Item:”. Underneath you will see “Desktop”. Left click. A list will appear. Select “Icon”. Now you can change icon size as well as the font and its size.

  9. Prunella
    April 22nd, 2008 03:19
    1

    Both Normal and Trivial methods only work with some of the desktop shortcut icons, the rest just turn into big generic e thingies. Plus you lose any of the customized “Changed Icons’ set through properties.

    There should be a better way to do this, it’s the 21st century after all ;-)

    Pru

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