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Change desktop icon size in Vista

Here's an easy way to increase or decrease the size of icons on the desktop in Vista. With the desktop displayed, hold down the Control and use the scroll wheel on your mouse. As you move the scroll wheel, the icon size will be adjusted.
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Categories: Vista windows desktop customization
Added: on Jan 28, 2008 at 11:57 am
Added By: an anonymous user

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Right click (mouse button) on empty space on desktop. Left click “Personalize”. Left Click “Window color and Appearance”. Left click “Open classic appearance properties for more color options”. An appearance settings window should now appear (looks very much like XP). Left click the “Advanced” button. Advanced Appearance window pops up. look for “Item:”. Underneath you will see “Desktop”. Left click. A list will appear. Select “Icon”. Now you can change icon size as well as the font and its size.
– Added by an anonymous user 53 minutes, 39 seconds ago
Right click (mouse button) on empty space on desktop. Left click "Personalize". Left Click "Window color and Appearance". Left click "Open classic appearance properties for more color options". An appearance settings window should now appear (looks very much like XP). Left click the "Advanced" button. Advanced Appearance window pops up. look for "Item:". Underneath you will see "Desktop". Left click. A list will appear. Select "Icon". Now you can change icon size as well as the font and its size.

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