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About Newsletter. Hosting By. Share on Twitter or Facebook or use the Permalink. December 18, Hey Now Scott, This is good to know. It's in the bottom-right corner of the dialog box. Click on the drop-down menu labeled "Item". It's in the lower-left corner of the screen.

Click on Icon. It's near the middle of the drop-down menu. Click the "Up" arrow. It's located to the right of the field labeled "Size". Doing so increase the size of desktop icons incrementally. Alternatively, type a larger number into the "Size" field. Click on Apply. It's in the lower-right corner of the dialog box. Click on OK. It's at the bottom-center of the dialog box. Now, the icons on your desktop will be bigger. Sammi Liu. For this one, you would have to go to Settings and check if it is possible on your computer.

But it is probably not going to work. If you have a Windows computer and it's version is pretty new then go to Settings and then to Personalize. Afterward just select Display and you can change it from there. Yes No. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 0. On any recent version of Windows beginning with 7, start by opening the Control Panel. Here, click on Appearance and Personalization, then find Display.

Underneath Display, there should be a blue link that says "Make text and other items larger or smaller. In the following menu, you should see two drop downs -- one for the text you want to change and one for the font size you want. Click the first drop down and select Icons. Change the font size, then click Apply. Not Helpful 1 Helpful 0. Right click anywhere on your desktop and click View.

From there you can change the size of the icons comfortably. You can also hold the Ctrl button on your keyboard and turn the scroll wheel on your mouse at the same time. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 3. Yes, you can. You would need to go to settings and select "system".

You should be prompted to a screen on which you can change the icon size. Not Helpful 2 Helpful 0. How do I change the size of the home page icons to larger when I don't have internet. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter defuseme2k Start date Feb 8, Joined Oct 7, Messages 1, Admin, if this is in the wrong place I'm sorry.

I wanted to show off this new feature in Vista. Please move it for me if it needs to be.. Vista supports huge icons natively. What I did was to convert my object dock icons x Here is a screenshot, Click the thumbnail!

Yeah, they're huge, way too big. I did it to show it off, I don't actually use it like this Joined Aug 4, Messages 3, Yah, just hold Control and roll the mousewheel and your mouse does have a wheel, right? Joined Aug 24, Messages 3, Martyr 2[H]4U.

Joined Jan 6, Messages 3, Click to expand No, not if the source file isn't bigger. The place holder grows, but the actual icon itself does not get bigger. The cool part about Vista is that you can now have truely beautiful icons natively. The built in icons are all nice, but the other apps you see on my screen there, winamp, mirc etc etc would be small still.