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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 on July 15th, 2008 at 6:58 am #

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

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

    Yes, this is applcable to Windows 7 as well.

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

    Really cool tip. Thanks

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

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

  5. joe on December 9th, 2009 at 7:56 am #

    Helpful, thanks

  6. Mike O. on February 5th, 2010 at 7:56 pm #

    My icons are huge on my monitor

    screen. I do not have a mouse with a

    scrolling wheel,(I have a notebook or

    laptop). My 3 yr old nephew did some-

    thing to change them.

    • Keith Dsouza on February 16th, 2010 at 12:39 pm #

      @Mike – You will have to visit the Control Panel and Display settings to change the icon size

      • maxicube on March 18th, 2010 at 1:36 am #

        you can scroll with the right side of the trackpad (like the end cm)

  7. steph on July 14th, 2010 at 5:32 pm #

    thank you! u saved my life! i thought i messed up my boss's desktop! so i tried so many dif. things but nothing worked but you made all things so simple!! thank u thank u thank uuu!!

  8. boyd on July 29th, 2010 at 3:53 am #

    Thanks a lot..big help:-)

  9. Dogfather on October 8th, 2010 at 6:02 pm #

    Icons on desktop are huge and some are normal size desktop settings do nothing

  10. william on December 4th, 2010 at 5:22 pm #

    video very uninformative … at least here on techie-buzz where you can’t pause it at the end …

  11. nandyou on July 16th, 2011 at 3:16 pm #

    cool………………..