I’ve been dreaming about a new computer monitor for a while, but the sad reality is that there’s no way I can afford it for a while yet, so I have to make do with my smaller screen. Which means I really want to make my icons smaller under WinXP. How do I do that?
As regular readers know, I’ve been experimenting with an ASUS EeePC 1000HA, a cute little mini-laptop that has lots to like about it (tiny, light) but the 13″ screen just doesn’t have much resolution. In fact, it runs at 1024×600 so every pixel counts!
Needless to say, I feel your pain even as I probably operate at a lower resolution than you do. My little EeePC dreams of a 15″ screen and perhaps even fantasizes about a 17″ or 21″ whopper of a screen. Who knows? 🙂
Anyway!
To start, here are my icons, big:
To make them small, right-click on the Desktop and choose “Properties”. You’ll see this:
Click on the “Appearance” tab:
We’re not quite there yet. Click on the “Advanced” button:
Half-way down is the box you want to uncheck, adjacent to “Use large icons”. Change that setting, then click “Okay” and close up the windows. Now your icons should be smaller:
And there ya go!
Kindly tell me advance feature of xp
My problem is the opposite of the ones above. Everytime I use a projector, when I disconnect, everything is much smaller on my screen. I mean everything – icons, print size, pictures. How can I get the reguar sizing back? I am using windows XP.
Thanks.
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How can I make the page size fit the screen. I’m using Windows XP?
this information was really helpful.thanks
Hi, your tutorial is not quite right. In the ‘Appearance’ tab, you have to click on “Effects” to bring you to the right window.
when i want to make a net connection with my bluetooth device it is not not connecting with internet but conectedit is connected with my mobile. plz send me the fed back .
Veronica, you probably should not be allowed to own a computer. Put the money you would have spent on a new keyboard into anger management classes.
A computer only does what you tell it to do.
Hi, I became frustrated and began to punch my lap top keyboard, It is now broken and it has been at least six weeks. Is it possible to repair this type of problem, if so how much would the costs be? Thank you.