As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each week, I’ll share one of those with you. They’re always brief and always focused. Enjoy!
Q: The desktop icons are tiny on my desktop. I don’t know how it happened, so I don’t know how to undo it. Please help!
A: This solution I learned in self-defense, like many other tips I share, when my students figured it out and made my desktop icons HUGE. Here’s how you fix that:
- Highlight all desktop icons by click and dragging a box around them
- Push Ctrl and roll the mouse wheel.
- It enlarges or delarges for you
That’s it. How wonderful. I no longer have to squint at icons too small for my eyes.
Questions you want answered? Email me at [email protected] and I’ll answer it within the next thirty days.
More Windows tips:
25 Techie Problems Every Student Can Fix–Update
Tech Tip #48: Quickly Switch Between Windows
Tech Tip #40: Where Did Windows Explorer Go?
Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
