Quickly Change Desktop Icon Size in Windows Vista [How To]

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The icon size in Windows Vista is quite large by default and it is quite a pain to go to personalize and then change the icon size.

Here is a quick tip for those you use Windows Vista and have a mouse with a scrolling wheel.

To change the icon size of the desktop icons, click the Ctrl key while you are viewing the desktop and scroll your wheel upwards or downwards to change the icon size to your satisfaction. That’s it, its as easy as a click and a scroll.

Watch a Techie Buzz production to see how you can easily change desktop icon size in Windows Vista.

 



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  1. Nirmal
    July 15th, 2008 at 6:58 am #

    This is applicable to other applications as well, like IE, Firefox, MS word etc.

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  2. Gilly_da_gr8
    May 15th, 2009 at 5:03 am #

    Yes, this is applcable to Windows 7 as well.

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  3. Sergey
    May 31st, 2009 at 5:14 pm #

    Really cool tip. Thanks

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  4. Hawk
    October 2nd, 2009 at 10:16 pm #

    Thanks heaps! I’ve always wondered how to do this.

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