If your desktop is like mine, it tends to gather icons—lots of icons. As I get older and my monitor resolution gets finer, I find it helpful to once in a while change up how those icons appear. Windows provides three different sizes (small, medium, and large) that you can switch between. (See Figure 1.)
Figure 1. Windows provides three different icon sizes for your desktop.
If you want to try out different icon sizes on your system, follow these steps:
Windows immediately makes the change and adjust what you see on your desktop. The change remains in effect until you explicitly change it again.
This tip (13129) applies to Windows 7, 8, and 10.
You can specify where Windows 10 saves new media. This quick change will allow you to better control how your media is ...
Discover MoreHave you ever needed to scroll through an inactive window while keeping another window active? This tip will show you how ...
Discover MoreDo you work with a lot of open windows at the same time? If so, you'll love this way to easily focus on only one of those ...
Discover MoreFREE SERVICE: Get tips like this every week in WindowsTips, a free productivity newsletter. Enter your address and click "Subscribe."
2017-08-14 06:41:03
Henry Noble
Another old Windows feature that continues to work in Windows 10 is to point anywhere on the desktop and then roll the mouse scroll wheel up or down. The icon size adjustments using the scroll wheel are finer increments than the choices in View.
FREE SERVICE: Get tips like this every week in WindowsTips, a free productivity newsletter. Enter your address and click "Subscribe."
Copyright © 2021 Sharon Parq Associates, Inc.
Comments