1 How to Change Desktop Icon Size Using the Scroll Wheel2 How to Make Icons Smaller or Larger on the Desktop via Context Menu3 How to Change Desktop View Layout using Keyboard4 How to Change Taskbar Icon Size in Taskbar Settings5 Extra: How to Create a Desktop Shortcut6 Extra: How to Fix Missing Icons and Thumbnails
You may want to make your desktop icons smaller so you can fit more on, or larger if your screen is a high resolution or you have poor eyesight. As a result, today we’re going to show how to change your desktop icon size in Windows 10. Due to there being a good chance you’ll want to change both, we’ll also be showing you how to change taskbar icon size in Windows 10. As well as making your taskbar icons bigger or smaller, this will adjust the size of your taskbar so you have more or less screen space to work with. How to make icons smaller on desktop or taskbar We’ll be showing you three methods to make desktop icons smaller or bigger today, one that uses the mouse, one that uses the keyboard, and one that uses both. Though there are a couple of ways to change taskbar icon size, we’ll keep that to one method – the easiest one. Let’s get started:
How to Change Desktop Icon Size Using the Scroll Wheel
How to Make Icons Smaller or Larger on the Desktop via Context Menu
How to Change Desktop View Layout using Keyboard
How to Change Taskbar Icon Size in Taskbar Settings
Extra: How to Create a Desktop Shortcut
Of course, knowing how to change desktop icon size isn’t much use if you don’t know how to make them in the first place. For that, you can follow our dedicated how to create a desktop shortcut tutorial.
Extra: How to Fix Missing Icons and Thumbnails
If after resizing your icons you realize that some of them are blank, you can instead follow our fix missing icons and thumbnails guide.
