#Icons on desktop are huge windows#

This is not a proper solution, but a workaround that you can try. If not, please head on to the next method. From the right click context menu, click on View and then click on Show desktop icons. I think the border is the result of this smoothing algorithm treating areas outside the bitmap/icon itself as pure white (or perhaps a colour chosen from one of the system colours), and then aliasing that with the edges of the icon.Д®DIT: actually, no, that makes no sense since the icon isn't actually enlarged that much, and is shown inset into the larger icon area. Right click on an empty space in your Desktop. Basically when enlarging an icon, a smoothing filter is applied to it. However I noticed a difference with XP that I'd forgotten- I think the smoothing introduced in Vista may be the cause.

#Icons on desktop are huge windows#

The 'secondairy' taskbar stays the same default windows size and does not follow the altered sizes.

If you want smaller icons, drag the slider to the left and the icon size will decrease. The current size will be given in pixels e.g., 64Г—64. A window will open with a slider for changing the icon size. You can choose any value from -480 to -2730 (-480 represents the. From the menu that opens, select вЂShow view optionsвЂ™. To change desktop icon horizontal spacing, double click IconSpacing to modify the value. This will make the 'main' taskbar a bit smaller and reduces also the size of the icons in the quickaccess or notification area. Go to the desktop and on the menu bar, select the View. This behaviour dates to Vista- I can't get Windows XP to give the same issue. Hi, I changed the icon size and text font size in windows to smaller. only reduced_5, however, has to scale an icon up to the size the 'full' and 'reduced_6' icons can instead have their 256x256 icons scaled down. This is interesting because none of the icons have that size. Tips: If you dont tick Auto arrange icons at first, when desktop icons are resized, the arrangement of desktop icons will be disordered. Press Ctrl, and then slide the mouses roller (larger forward, smaller backward). The 'Icon size' it wants to use here is 128x128. Right kick an empty space on the desktop, select View and tick Auto arrange icons. I was able to test this myself by fiddling with some icons.

It will occur if Windows has to take a smaller icon and scale it up for the current icon size. As others have said, it's related to icon sizes.