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You might want bigger icons on your Windows 10 PC to help you detect what y'all need, or smaller icons to go along things meaty and tidy. Fortunately, it's easy to adjust icon sizes on your desktop, taskbar, and File Explorer.

Resize Desktop Icons

If the icons on your desktop are too large or too small, you can quickly resize them into one of the three available sizes.

Kickoff, right-click anywhere on your desktop. In the context carte that appears, hover your mouse over "View." In the sub-menu, yous'll see three sizes to choose from: large, medium, and small. Yous'll see a dot next to the electric current size. Click the size that you want.

If you find that the three available options aren't exactly what you're looking for, yous can place your cursor anywhere on the desktop, press and hold the Ctrl fundamental, then scroll your mouse bike up or downwards to increase or reduce the size of the desktop icons, respectively. This adjusts the size in smaller increments, letting y'all become the size closer to what you want.

Resize Taskbar Icons

At that place's an selection to conform the size of the Taskbar icons in the Settings card, only you lot only have two options: normal and pocket-sized.

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Right-click on an empty space in the Taskbar. Click "Taskbar Settings" at the lesser of the context carte du jour that appears.

Right-click the taskbar and choose "Taskbar Settings" from the context menu.

The Taskbar Settings window will open. Near the meridian of the list of options, toggle the slider to the "On" position under the "Use Pocket-size Taskbar Buttons" option.

Toggle the "Use Small Taskbar Buttons" slider to the "On" position.

This will reduce the size of the taskbar icons.

To change the icons back to the default size, toggle the slider back to the "Off" position.

Resize File Explorer Icons

File Explorer lets you accommodate the icon sizes to extra big, large, medium, or small.

Showtime, open File Explorer. You lot can use the Windows+E keyboard shortcut, or simply click the File Explorer icon on the taskbar.

Next, click the "View" tab.

Click "View" in File Explorer.

In the "Layout" group, choose the icon size that you desire. The current setting is highlighted in blueish.

If one of these four options doesn't fit your requirements, place your mouse anywhere in File Explorer, press and hold the Ctrl central, and and so roll your mouse wheel upward or down to increment or decrease the icon size, respectively. This volition adjust the size of the icons in smaller increments.

That'south all there is to it.

Changing icon sizes in Windows 10 is easy, but there's no need to cease there. You tin can as well alter the size of Windows 10 text and fifty-fifty your cursor. Continue customizing Windows 10 to match exactly what you lot desire.

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