How do you make Icons on your desktop larger?

Question

I reformatted my computer with a new XP operating system, same as before. Now the icons are too small and i can hardly see them. Thanks for any help

Answer 1

Right click on the desktop and choose 'properties'. In the open display properties window, click on the settings tab. Then decrease the screen resolution by moving the slider towards 'less'. You can also click on the "advanced" button and change the DPI to Larger. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

1. Right click anywhere on desktop.
2. Choose properties
3. Choose appearance
4. Choose advanced
5. Dropdown list under item: choose icon
6. Click the up arrow after the number (example: item: icon, size 29).
Each click enlarges the icon.
The font number will increase the size of the icon words.

Click Ok, then OK again. Keep doing that until you are happy with the icon size.

Answer 3

you right-click anywhere on your desktop, select properties. the display properties will open up. select the tab that says appearance. then in the bottom right corner you'll see a button labeled "advanced". click on that. then where it says "desktop" select icon and then you will see two options for size. the first one (in line with "icon") is for the size of the icon, the second one (in line with the font) is for the icon text size. good luck. if you need anymore computer help, e-mail me at [e-mail]

Answer 4

Bring your screen resolution down a notch. If your icons are small, chances are everything else will be too. Bringing your screen resolution down will increase the size of everything on your computer...
Right click on the desktop, click properties, click the Settings tab, then reduce your screen resolution by one notch, and press apply and see if this helps.....