Summary: Make computer icons smaller or bigger by right-clicking the icon from the desktop and changing the appearance from the Properties tab. Change computer icon sizes with tips from a software developer in this free video about computer technology.
Dave Andrews is a software developer with a business and Web site selling programs and other computer services in Franklin, Tenn. Having worked in the IT industry for more than 8...read more
"Hi, my name is Dave Andrews, today I'm going to show you how to make icons larger or smaller. Let's go to our desktop and we want to make our icons here on the desktop larger. To do so, right click on desktop, and go to properties. Let's select our appearance tab and click advanced. Under item, we want to select icon. As you can see we have a size field and we can increase. Let's make it sixty and press okay. Press apply. Windows will take a second as it restarts its graphic subsystem. You can use the same process by going to the advanced appearance selecting icon to make your icon smaller. Just choose the - under file size - reduce that number from sixty to something like twenty or fifteen. Now, Windows has reloaded, and as you can see, all of our icons are larger. As you can, see it's very easy to change your icon size in Windows. My name is Dave Andrews and I've just showed you how to make your desktop icons larger or smaller."
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