small icon size after changing DPI

[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.

 

[Elmo]

Saran wrote:
> 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.

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.

--
Joe =o)

 

[Saran]

Elmo wrote:
> Saran wrote:
>> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Joe =o)

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.

 

[Alan Edwards]

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

....Alan
--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
http://dts-l.com/index.htm




On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 09:43:07 -0800, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support, "Saran" <none@nospam>
wrote:

>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]

That did it. Many thanks

Alan Edwards wrote:
> You have a bit more to change to compensate.
> Control Panel-Display-Appearance tab-Advanced
> You need to change Caption Buttons, among others.
>
> ...Alan
> --
> Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
> http://dts-l.com/index.htm
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 09:43:07 -0800, in
> microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support, "Saran" <none@nospam>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.