How do you resize desktop icons in Windows 8?

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The icons on my desktop changed to a smaller size. I do not know what cause them to change size. How do I change their size back to what it was?

I have been unable to find any directions on sizing desktop icons for Windows 8.

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Anonymous

hmm, I hold down the Crtl key and use the mouse wheel to resize desktop icons.

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The icons on my desktop changed to a smaller size. I do not know what cause them to change size. How do I change their size back to what it was?

I have been unable to find any directions on sizing desktop icons for Windows 8.

The Desktop in Windows 8 works the same way it did in previous versions.

Right click an empty space on the Desktop.

Select the View option.

You shouild see 3 options for changing to Small, Medium, or Large Icons.

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Anonymous

2014-01-06T20:31:00+00:00

thank you :)
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Anonymous

2013-12-24T17:06:16+00:00

How do you resize the LOGO contained within the icon?

The logo for Micosoft is the size of the icon but most others are not??
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Anonymous

2013-12-06T09:27:24+00:00

I'm afraid AOL Tech appear to be making it up - I'm with g0Bonkers - just hold down CTRL and use the scroll wheel and you can pretty much set the desktop icons to any size you'd like. If you're on a laptop, hold down CTRL and use whatever you normally use to scroll to achieve the same thing.
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