Thanks! That did it. I don't even have an explanation as to why I didn't
discover this before. I use right-click for so many things that I certainly
should have tried it here. The missing menu bar stumped me, though.
Everywhere else, I can simply select "view" from that bar, but the menu bar
is missing from my Control Panel. Brink described a way to enable menu bar,
and I'm also going to look into that.
MaryL
"oscar" <oscar@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Control Panel >Classic View
>
> Right click on white space.
>
> Select View
>
> Choose your icon size
>
> --
> oscar 
>
> ...Right click is your best friend...
>
>
> "MaryL" wrote:
>
>> The size of icons in Control Panel suddenly became very large. I don't
>> see
>> any way (as I had in XP and even in other parts of Vista) to change the
>> size
>> of icons or to select something like "details." I used System Restore to
>> go
>> back, and the icons were the size I wanted. The next day -- after
>> Windows
>> again downloaded an update -- the huge icons were back. Help! Surely
>> there
>> is some way to control this that I simply don't know.
>>
>> I am using Vista Home Premium (full version, not OEM).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> MaryL
>>
>>