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Vista: Return Icons to the Smaller Classic XP Size

Contributed by davak

May 29, 2006

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!

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BillGates

thanks alot..

Vyro

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 1280x800 - this seriously aided me in my frustration.

asdf

Thanks! Changed it to the 2nd smallest possible size.

Scott

Thank you!!

this was seriously annoying me because previously I had just made the resolution bigger which made text harder to read.

V1

Scrolling is a Great trick!!!!!!!

charlie

yes, a great trick. Played a little confusion jokes on a co-worker!! hehe

Nguyen Dinh Hung

hi,thanks

mike

thanks , i went to 15 microsoft sites and help features and it would not tell me how. This also works with OS7. Thanks

saxonije

So simple and so close. Thanks

iceymanipulator

So cool, thanks :)

jamie1970

Thank you so much, I couldn't stand looking at the icons for another moment!!

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