Change icon size

This setting is used to change the size for the icons to suit your desktop.

Level: Recommended For Novice Users

Description:
The sizes of the icons can be changed to suit your requirements on the desktop. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. Create a reg_sz string value name "shell icon size" (if this value doesn't exist). Right click on the option shell icon size, and from the drop down menu, select modify. Enter the value given below: <table><tr><td>display statistics</td><td>values</td></tr><tr><td>display 16x16 pixel icons</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td>display 18x18 pixel icons</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td>display 20x20 pixel icons</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td>display 22x22 pixel icons</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>display 24x24 pixel icons</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td>display 26x26 pixel icons</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td>display 28x28 pixel icons</td><td>28</td></tr><tr><td>display 30x30 pixel icons</td><td>30</td></tr><tr><td>display 32x32 pixel icons</td><td>32</td></tr><tr><td>display 34x34 pixel icons</td><td>34</td></tr><tr><td>display 36x36 pixel icons</td><td>36</td></tr><tr><td>display 38x38 pixel icons</td><td>38</td></tr><tr><td>display 40x40 pixel icons</td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td>display 42x42 pixel icons</td><td>42</td></tr><tr><td>display 44x44 pixel icons</td><td>44</td></tr><tr><td>display 46x46 pixel icons</td><td>46</td></tr><tr><td>display 48x48 pixel icons</td><td>48</td></tr></table> delete this entry for default windows icon size. Restart your system. Note: this will also affect your start menu and the large icon view in windows explorer. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.