I subscribe to Shockwave and down load games to play quiet often. Some games that I play for awhile when I am done al the icons on my computer and even browser windows are EXTREMLY large. I really don't like this. I used to just restore my computer to an earlier day but for some reason I don't have a restore point-therefore am stuck with these outragiously large icons on my desktop. Does anyone know how to fix this problem and why it is doing it in the first place??

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...icons on my computer...large

I assume that you're referring to Desktop Icons being too large. You control the size of Desktop Icons in the Display Properties window.

1) Open Display Properties: Right click on any unused area of the Desktop and choose "properties" from the right-click menu.

2) See this picture Choose Appearance tab.

3) Click the "Advanced" button

4) Scroll to Icons

5) Set your desired size (defaults 32 icon size - 8 for fonts).

Note: If the image is to small to read, click the Image Resize Toolbar. This picture shows what it looks like. Hover your cursor near the bottom right corner of the image to get the Image Resize Toolbar to come into view. IE version 6.0:


Windows IE 7.0 zoom tool:


I hope this helps!

Dwight

Thank you! The settings were already at where you suggested so I went smaller. Do you happen to know why it seems to do this after playing games? Could it have anything to do with my video card?

Some games will reset the display to the Windows default value screen resolution. Depending upon the system, that is likely to be much like a "zoom". Games are supposed to restore the screen resolution when closed, but this element will frequently fail to work correctly.

You can reset the screen resolution size manually:
1) Open Display Properties window (as shown shown the previous post).

2) Select "Settings"

3) Slide the Screen resolution to the right for larger and left for smaller. A CRT type monitor is often set for 800 by 600 while a flat screen monitor is often set to 1024 By 768. You can experiment with yours to find your preferred size.

4) OK your selections.

If you cannot change your screen resolution, then the video driver file may be damaged. You can reinstall the default graphics adapter card driver file if you find the need. Post again for instructions or see this page: Video drivers

Dwight

To Dwight's good advice, I will add this: be careful moving that slider around! Take it in little increments - I foolishly slid mine all the way over once, and ended up with a blank screen. I couldn't fix it because I couldn't see what was there.

Of course, not everyone is as foolish as Catty.

Thank you for all your help. Just today my monitor went out. I had to go out and buy a new one. When I hooked it up-everything looked the way it should (except smaller from my size changes) so I guess the troubles that I had were due to the monitor. I adjusted things to where they used to be (the defult sizes) and all is great!!

Thank you again for your help!

Hi, Dwight, could you fix or get someone to fix your images in this (winorlose, icon size) thread? They seem to be broken.

Thanks, Big Guy.

You may need to right click on the image and choose "show image" to make them display.