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post #11 of 20
8/12/09 at 2:52am
Easy way to do it is hold control and scroll with your scroll wheel.
post #12 of 20
1/1/10 at 2:42pm
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You could just right click on the desktop screen and choose small for icons. There's an option to make icons on taskbar + system tray small too.
Not true. The default for small is too large. I had the same problem. The holding ctrl+mousewheel works great. Thank you!
post #13 of 20
8/13/11 at 5:52am
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Originally Posted by wvwalt View Post
Now how in the heck did you know this trick with the CTRL and the mouse wheel to reduce the size of the desktop icons?

That's great! It really helped me out.

I'll name my next wife after you!
Works like a charm! Thanks for this. I was curious on how the heck I could have messed up my settings (W7 Enterprise). I must have accidentally scrolled while holding CTRL. Anyways, thanks a lot wvwalt.

Cheers~
post #14 of 20
8/14/11 at 3:06am
Good ol F1 seems outdated, hitting F1 type and typing Desktop Icons then hit enter gives me as second search result all answers from this thread, costs about 3 seconds...
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8/14/11 at 7:08am
I always used the Control+Mouse wheel to scroll text size in browsers. Never knew you could use it for the desktop and normal windows XD
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post #16 of 20
8/17/11 at 6:02am
well heres how you do it left click then view then classic or small clasic in vista small in windows 7 hope that helps
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11/4/11 at 10:47pm
I'm gonna rename my CURRENT wife (No. 2) after you!
post #18 of 20
11/14/11 at 5:46am
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Originally Posted by wvwalt View Post

Now how in the heck did you know this trick with the CTRL and the mouse wheel to reduce the size of the desktop icons?


That's great! It really helped me out.


I'll name my next wife after you!

I had this problem on my Acer laptop which doesn't have a scroll wheel so I couldn't use your fix. My icons were so big I could only fit 8 on the screen. I knew there must be a way to reduce them since I accidentally increased them somehow. I played around and finally figured it out. This laptop has a multi-touch pad. I just clicked on the desktop to make sure it was active and then pinch zoomed in or out on the touch pad. The icons resized. I hope this helps someone. redface.gif
post #19 of 20
5/30/12 at 3:33pm
Here's the way I did it - right click on the desktop and go VIEW > Small Icons

done! thumb.gif
post #20 of 20
5/30/12 at 3:36pm
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I had this problem on my Acer laptop which doesn't have a scroll wheel so I couldn't use your fix.

Then you simply use ctrl and - or + on the keyboard to do it then. Thanks
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