Vista: Return Icons to the Smaller Classic XP Size
Contributed by David Kirk 
Tagged: Microsoft Vista The icons in vista seem huge. Here is how to shrink them back to their pre-vista size.
Bring back Classic Icon Sizes In Vista:
1. Right-click on a unused area of the desktop
2. Pick View
3. Select Classic Icons
Even more interesting is this little shortcut…
Hold the CTRL key and scroll up and down on your scrollwheel on you mouse. You can size the icons however you wish!
BillGates said on November 21, 2008
thanks alot..
Vyro said on December 15, 2008
Wow. major help – thanks a lot. I was going crazy thinking my icons were stuck at that big-size because my resolutions maximum on my laptop was 1280×800 – this seriously aided me in my frustration.
asdf said on January 22, 2009
Thanks! Changed it to the 2nd smallest possible size.
Scott said on January 26, 2009
Thank you!!
this was seriously annoying me because previously I had just made the resolution bigger which made text harder to read.
V1 said on May 5, 2009
Scrolling is a Great trick!!!!!!!
Nguyen Dinh Hung said on May 8, 2009
hi,thanks
mike said on May 12, 2009
thanks , i went to 15 microsoft sites and help features and it would not tell me how. This also works with OS7. Thanks
charlie said on August 11, 2009
yes, a great trick. Played a little confusion jokes on a co-worker!! hehe
Anonymous said on October 30, 2009
So simple and so close. Thanks
Anonymous said on November 17, 2009
So cool, thanks :)
Anonymous said on November 17, 2009
Thank you so much, I couldn’t stand looking at the icons for another moment!!
lianne said on February 8, 2010
The BEST and SHORTEST tip ever. Thanks for posting it!!!!!
Greenhell666 said on August 27, 2010
WHOOOOOOOOOO
Eric said on January 4, 2011
Brilliant! Thank you. Especially for the Cntrl Wheel information.
Alin said on January 18, 2011
thx man :)
liz said on June 4, 2011
this really helped. Can you help with another problem
lately when I open my e-mail the fold has a +in front so I have to double click on it then I have to open the inbox.
Is there a way , simple, to change and keep it the default setting.
when I open my mail I see:
cannot display folder, root of an IMAP store whatever that is,the root does not have messages display the folder list and click subfolder.
If someone thinks this is a message in English, I’m an English teacher and this is Chinese.
Now I double click the + sign in front of mail folder 2007 Outlook and change it to a minus sign, change the + sign in front of the in box and THEN can read my mail.
I used to never have to do this. Someone told me that updates can change things.
How, please tell me, can I get it so I can just read my mail !!! Gratefully, Liz