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Old 03-30-2008   #1 (permalink)
vapor
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Desktop Icon size

Suddenly, my desktop icons are HUGE about 3 inches square. I believe it is
accessibility setting. When I change it on the desktop to a smaller size, it
immediately cascades back to the HUGE size. I've looked at all the
accessibility settings I know of and nothing is set to on. When I look at IE
Explorer browser, there are these HUGE navigation buttons.

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Old 03-30-2008   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Desktop Icon size

Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by vapor View Post
Suddenly, my desktop icons are HUGE about 3 inches square. I believe it is
accessibility setting. When I change it on the desktop to a smaller size, it
immediately cascades back to the HUGE size. I've looked at all the
accessibility settings I know of and nothing is set to on. When I look at IE
Explorer browser, there are these HUGE navigation buttons.
Hi Vapor,

You might check your DPI settings to make sure that it is still set at the default of 96 DPI. Larger DPI settings will make everything look huge. You may need to this from Safe Mode if everything is to big to see what you are doing. This will show you how to do this.

DPI Scaling

Shawn
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Old 03-31-2008   #3 (permalink)
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Re: Desktop Icon size

Rightclick the Start orb, then Properties, Start menu tab, "Customize"
button, scroll down to the checkbox for "use large icons"
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> Suddenly, my desktop icons are HUGE about 3 inches square. I believe it is
> accessibility setting. When I change it on the desktop to a smaller size,
> it
> immediately cascades back to the HUGE size. I've looked at all the
> accessibility settings I know of and nothing is set to on. When I look at
> IE
> Explorer browser, there are these HUGE navigation buttons.
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