How to Change Desktop Icon Size in Windows

Why Change The Desktop Icon Size?

 There are many reasons you may want to change the desktop icons size.If your current icons are too small, you may have difficulties identifying them. Increasing the size of your icons will make them more readable. The drawback of doing this is that you’ll be able to accommodate less icons on your desktop.

Change The Desktop Icon Size Using a Mouse

One easy way to change the desktop icon size on a Windows PC is to use your mouse. If your mouse has a scroll wheel on it, you can scroll this wheel upwards or downwards to increase and decrease the size of your icons.

1. Go to the desktop on your PC.
2. Press and hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard.
3. Scroll your mouse wheel upwards to increase the size of your desktop icons. You’ll see your icons going bigger in real-time on your screen.
4. Scroll your mouse wheel downwards to decrease the size of your desktop icons.

Use The Context Menu To Change The Desktop Icon Size

Windows provides you the option to change the size of your desktop icons in your context menu. This menu comes with multiple predefined icon sizes that you can choose and apply to your desktop icons.

1. Right-click anywhere blank on your desktop.
2. Click on the option that says View and you’ll have three icon sizes to choose from: large icons, medium icons, and small icons

      3.Clicking on any of these options will increase or decrease the size of your desktop icons. Most users prefer the Medium icons option.

Modify An Option In Settings To Change The Desktop Icon Size

Windows 10 has a scaling and layout option that allows you to scale various items including text, apps, and icons on your computer. You can use this option to apply one of the predefined scale sizes or you can specify your own value.Specifying your own value provides you with more flexibility and you can have a custom size for all the elements on your screen.

1.  Open the Start Menu, search for Settings, and open it.
2. Click on System on the following screen to open the system settings menu.
3. Choose Display from the options available in the left sidebar.
4. You’ll see a section named Scale and layout on the right-hand side pane. Click on the dropdown menu for Change the size of text, apps, and other items and choose a scale value.
5. The changes you make will reflect immediately and all your screen elements including the desktop icons will either go big or small.
6. To specify a custom scale size, click on the Advanced scaling settings option.
7. On the following screen, you can enter a value in the only textbox on the screen. This value must be between 100 and 500. Then click on Apply to apply your changes to the system.