make Windows 11 photo thumbnails larger than extra large in file explorer

Anonymous
2022-01-04T13:22:19+00:00

Now using Windows 11. When I open File Explorer to view photo thumbnails and set the view to Extra Large, it is not any larger than when I set the view to Large. The only difference between Large and Extra Large is that the spacing between thumbnails gets larger -- not the photo itself.

My laptop is still on Windows 10, and Extra Large view there is much larger than the Large view setting.

Can you help?

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-03-16T13:42:41+00:00

    To my knowledge, no. The problem is with coding in Windows itself. The devs at MS are going to have to be the ones to fix it. I have 2 machines that run Windows 10. (one dual boots into Linux as well) and one that was Windows 10 and I've upgraded to Windows 11. It is the only one of the three that have the problem. Only Windows 11 has it from what I've seen on my machines and other Windows 11 machines I've seen. All the 11 machines have the problem. I've spoke to a couple of network engineers I know and they are seeing the same thing. And a few of my techie friends say the same. So lets hope MS gets around to putting out a fix for it. It seems minor but it will drive off a lot more people than they think. Good luck. Oh and if anyone runs into a programmer who has wrote a fix for it, PLEASE post it here. Shrug, its possible. There are programmers good enough to do so. I met a few in my life.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-03-17T18:57:28+00:00

    Just adding my displeasure with the Win11 icon size limitation.

    I do a lot of photo/video work and icons are too small at largest setting to effectively work with. Bummer.

    Screen specs: 16" 16:10, 2560 x 1600

    Largest landscape photo icons are 1" wide...ugh!

    Please, MS, fix this!

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-03-17T19:24:41+00:00

    I don't have that problem. I have Windows 11 Pro with all updates. See example images below.

    Extra Large

    Image

    Large

    Image

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-03-17T19:57:36+00:00

    Horace Wiggins

    While i've seen posts where large and extra large icons are the same size, this thread is about the extra large icons not being large enough. This seems to be the case on higher res screens like mine. It's a known and documented issue. Hopefully, MS will get around to correcting it...

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-03-17T21:23:38+00:00

    @Angstromm

    The images I posted are from my desktop computer. I haven't checked my laptop that has a 4K screen. My desktop monitor is 24 inch while my laptop is 15 inch.

    I have looked at my laptop and I see what you and others are saying.

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