Vista desktop icons messed up

If you are a subscriber it will allow you to select which categories you would like to see in this menu from a list of all galleries available on the site. This information will be stored on your account for all your future visits. Seems to be reproducable though as I'm seeing the same thing here on my vista bit ultimate pc.

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Amen, just got a new computer at work with Vista. The large icons have been bugging me since. Wow, thanks a lot. I have been wondering since the release of vista. Come to this page, read a sentence, and walla!

I had this problem for few days and really tried many ways,but invain. Finally, your solution worked out. Many thanks. But nonetheless, brilliant method. Thanks a lot. LOL guessing you've figure this out by now. Without letting go of the Ctrl key, use your mouse the middle button on the mouse to scroll up or down to change the icon's size.

If you're not using a mouse it's still the same method, hold the Ctrl key and scroll to change the size. Make sure the desktop has the focus, just click anywhere on the desktop before starting this process.

He also explains other methods of resizing your icons. Just back to report that I tried again and this time there was no crash and everything has remained stable since. Obviously the problem I had before was due to something else, not to the tip. Many thanks again.

So simple and so brilliant. I spent an hour going around through various help topics peovided by windows 7 but no one proved to be of any help. Thank you indeed! I have the desktop icon size set to 16, which seems to be the lowest value available, but still find the icons too large.

So it looks as though I have to live with the icons the size they are. Glad to hear it works for others, though. Just a moment…Just a moment…I am not longer malfuctioning.

Unfortunately the crew is already gone now. Please publish registry settings. I love to mess around with the registry, but not blindfolded. Iconspacing is on my Windows 7 system why minus? I tried the mouse wheel, but although I can scroll with scroll-button and ball on my Logitech Marble, it does nothing on desktop icon size. Scrolling mouse wheel method — brilliant, I've been scratching my head since installing windows 7.

Why go through all this when you can just right click on drsktop and change under view??? Because you might want a size other than those 3 defaults. Hi , your comments on changing the desktop icon really helps!!! On Windows 7 pre release, I tried doing the same but I could not able to get the interface to resize desktop icons.

The second method of holding the CTRL key and moving the mouse roller up or down is really surprised me. Hey man you rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The icon size changes to a different value usually much smaller during startup and has to be resized each time the computer is restarted.

I have tried each one of these suggestions without resolution. It seems the icon specifications are in more then one location. I am testing Windows 7 and I will try these same procedures on the beta and post the results in a few days. On desktop, I did a right click, selected 'view small icon'. My changes were not saved which is similar to your case. Were you able to fix it? If you have a laptop you are able to hold down Control and Shift while using the track pad's scroll bar to adjust icon size on your desk top.

Scroll Bar may look like silk screen or raised up and down or left and right arrows found on the tracking pad. I have Lenovo T61 think pad, that has no track pad scroll bar.

Can you pl. Most laptops have the ability to enable or disable the scroll bar. Google it for your laptop, or try the following: Control Panel, Mouse, then click the tab that says device settings. Depending on your model there should be options to enable the scroll bar and other options.

Go to Control Panel — Mouse — and enable the bells and whistles you want for your touchpad. Finally, if you have Synaptic touchpad, you can definitely do everything in this article from the touchpad.

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For technical support inquiries, Dennis can be reached via Live chat online this site using the Zopim Chat service currently located at the bottom left of the screen ; optionally, you can contact Dennis through the website contact form. One user in particular emailed me to state that he's used the value 70 a positive number for both settings here and it fixed his problem.

Please try 70 value if doesn't work for you. Re:above, I had to use a trial and error method. Tried 70 initially, then and finally Which worked well. On the desk top, holding the control key and using mouse wheel, The size of icons can be adjusted to your liking.

I was so Frustrated with the icon large saparations after an update , finally is back to normal! Thanks for the info! Thank you! I tried 70 but it didn't work. Then I tried with the Registry Editor and it worked! Finding this page was definitely a huge time saver and I'm so thankful it came to the top of my feed and I didn't have to spend hours searching for a solution that didn't work Just signed up as a permanent user.

Thanks again. Found this site when windows 10 desktop icon spacing went strange after last update. Good display.