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Old November 10, 2007, 10:48 PM
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I have dual booted my pC to have both XP and VIsta. I notcied the icon size on the Vista desktop are large... I for the life of me can't find the settings to make them smaller.. anyone able to point me into the right direction??


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Old November 10, 2007, 11:26 PM
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right click on the desktop, and click personalize (Vista), then display settings- increase your resolution
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I have dual booted my pC to have both XP and VIsta. I notcied the icon size on the Vista desktop are large... I for the life of me can't find the settings to make them smaller.. anyone able to point me into the right direction??


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That's how Vista icons are. You can right click on the desktop, hover on View, then select Classic Icons.
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Old November 11, 2007, 01:17 AM
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That's how Vista icons are. You can right click on the desktop, hover on View, then select Classic Icons.
^^ Yup ^^

I'm on XP at the moment, but if memory serves correctly, you can also adjust icon size by left-clicking on an empty part of the desktop, then hold down CTRL and roll the scroll wheel on your mouse up or down or you can right-click on desktop > Personalize > Colour and Appearance > there should be a link on there that will take you to the advanced section (can't recall what it says) and it will take you to the familiar window that looks like this:
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^^ Yup ^^

I'm on XP at the moment, but if memory serves correctly, you can also adjust icon size by left-clicking on an empty part of the desktop, then hold down CTRL and roll the scroll wheel on your mouse up or down or you can right-click on desktop > Personalize > Colour and Appearance > there should be a link on there that will take you to the advanced section (can't recall what it says) and it will take you to the familiar window that looks like this:
Exactly how you do it.
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Old November 11, 2007, 08:39 AM
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ahhh what a neat trick!!! thankyou..... that worked perfectly...... looks alot better now... It was driving me nuts that I had the screen rez maxed out and they were still huge!!!! all fixed...

thanks a million!!!!!!


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