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Re: Question about icons on desktop         

Group: microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize · Group Profile
Author: Shenan Stanley
Date: Aug 1, 2008 07:41

Atreju wrote:
> I fear the simple answer is "absolutely not" but I'm hoping there's
> a way: Can I make my windows XP desktop icons display at the
> gargantuan size that Vista does? I just reverted to XP after
> encountering my first few debilitating incompatibilities. One thing
> I really did like was the giant icons. I have high-res icon files,
> I just don't know if there's any way via registry hack or anything,
> to make XP display desktop icons that large.
>
> Please, someone gimme some good news?

Trust in your ability to ask a question...

Search using Google!
http://www.google.com/
(How-to: http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/basics.html )

Example:
http://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+change+the+icon+size+in+Windows+XP

One of the first hits:
http://www.entity.cc/how-to-icons.php#size

However - with minimal tweaking:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%%3Aen-us&q=how+to+change+desktop...
("Windows XP" now in quotes and the word "the" replaced with "desktop" based
off looking over the previous results and knowing what I wanted.)

One of the first hits:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310543

You can make the icons ridiculously small or ridiculously large.

My suggestion - get a 24" widescreen monitor... Cannot afford that? Get a
22" widescreen monitor.
Either way - set the resolution lower than native and see if that is not
large enough. You may be surprised and not have to change anything with
mionor tweaks like this - that are easy to forget.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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