Change the Size of Desktop Icons in Windows 7

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Hi. You're watching VisiHow, and this is a tutorial on how to change the size of the icons on your Windows 7 desktop. You can see that I have three icons on my desktop in each corner. They are the small sized icons now, but you can change the size of them.

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   Start out by right clicking on an empty space, on the desktop

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   The new dialogue window will load there.

   

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   In this window, we're looking for "View"

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   Highlight it by hovering the mouse cursor over it.

   

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   In the next section, we will see "Large Icons", "Medium Icons", and "Small Icons"

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   In this case, we have selected "Small Icons", but let's change the size by selecting "Medium Icons"

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   The icon size has changed

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   The same goes for "Large Icons"

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   We can make them larger or smaller than preset small icons

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   We need to press and hold the 'Ctrl' key on the keyboard.

   

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   Scroll up to make the icons bigger

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   Scroll down to make the icons smaller

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   Depending on the capabilities of the video card, we can set the maximum or minimum size of the icons according to our preferences.

   

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    This concludes the tutorial on how to change the size of icons on Windows 7

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