small icon size after changing DPI

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Saran

I just got a new laptop, with a 15.4" wide screen that runs natively at
1650x1080, which is nice. I have installed XP SP2 and everything works
great.

Only thing was that text could be a little bigger to make it easier to
read so I increased the DPI to 120 and that makes things look great...
except for "small" (16x16) icons (taskbar, quick-launch, tray,
startmenu->programs, etc), which look horrible (kinda distorted.)

I have searched through google/groups and such and can't find an answer
to this: how do I keep my DPI setting but make "small" icon size look
right, like when it was at 96 DPI?

Thanks.
 
Saran said:
I just got a new laptop, with a 15.4" wide screen that runs natively at
1650x1080, which is nice. I have installed XP SP2 and everything works
great.

Only thing was that text could be a little bigger to make it easier to
read so I increased the DPI to 120 and that makes things look great...
except for "small" (16x16) icons (taskbar, quick-launch, tray,
startmenu->programs, etc), which look horrible (kinda distorted.)

I have searched through google/groups and such and can't find an answer
to this: how do I keep my DPI setting but make "small" icon size look
right, like when it was at 96 DPI?

Thanks.
Click to expand...

Open Display Properties, Appearance tab, Effects button, click "Use
large icons".

Or:

Open Display Properties, Appearance tab, Advanced button, scroll down to
Icon and increase its size.
 
Elmo said:
Open Display Properties, Appearance tab, Effects button, click "Use
large icons".

Or:

Open Display Properties, Appearance tab, Advanced button, scroll down
to Icon and increase its size.
Click to expand...

That's the size for large icons. It's the small icon that I want to fix.
It's only in places like the icons for tasks in the taskbar and system
tray, and in the startmenu as well as explorer on the left side pane
(tree view.) Other places they show as normal (right side (detail list
view) of explorer for example.

I just want to have readible text without the small icons being sized up
(like the icon for cmd.exe, looks terrible).

Another side note, I also noticed some fonts like fixedsys and terminal
don't look right anymore. Are there a TTF versions of terminal and
fixedsys?

Thanks again.
 
You have a bit more to change to compensate.
Control Panel-Display-Appearance tab-Advanced
You need to change Caption Buttons, among others.

....Alan
 
That did it. Many thanks :)

Alan said:
You have a bit more to change to compensate.
Control Panel-Display-Appearance tab-Advanced
You need to change Caption Buttons, among others.

...Alan
Click to expand...
 
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