How can I change the desktop icon size in Windows 7 without the mouse wheel?

Question

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How do I reduce the desktop icon size in Windows 7?

In Windows 7, you can use Ctrl + the mouse wheel to change your icon size on your desktop.

How do you do this on a laptop without any scroll wheel?

Solution 1

You can still do it through the right click menu, but you can only pick from three choices instead of the many in-between options:

Solution 2

Start menu → Run → regedit.

Find the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics

Modify "Shell Icon Size". The smaller the number, the smaller the icons. You'll have to reboot to see the effect.

Solution 3

Technically this is not the exact answer to your question but if you want to reduce the size of desktop icons, you can try the following: Most laptops allow treating simultaneous click of left and right mouse buttons as a middle click. On my laptop, I was able to use this feature to resize the icons on the desktop. (Ctrl + left + right + trackpad scroll up/down).

Comments

[th3dude]

Thanks. Sucks that you are limited to those choices without the mouse wheel.

[Admin]

Wonderful, it allows to change icon size, horizontal and veritcal spacing, without rebooting!