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    Why are icons so large?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by prol91, Nov 26, 2006.

  1. prol91

    prol91 Notebook Consultant

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    Yesterday i went to best buy and was looking at some of the noteboks and i noticed that the icons the letters,theclise sign<X> were very large.Why is it like that?
     
    prol91, Nov 26, 2006
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    lbjazz Notebook Consultant

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    Either you were looking at notebooks with 1200x800 resolution and you are used to a much higher resolution or someone had set the dpi scaling to the "Large" setting. Those of use who have poor vision have to have the lower resolution screens and the dip scaled up.
     
    lbjazz, Nov 26, 2006
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    CrAzYsIm Notebook Evangelist

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    it could be because geeksquad has some software that they probably put on it and it tweeks XP and makes changes and one of the changes is larger icons. i had it on my desktop but then i formatted
     
    CrAzYsIm, Nov 26, 2006
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  4. Sam

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    Its probably resolution difference, or system settings. You can change the appearance of text, icons and stuff on your own computer too.
     
    Sam, Nov 26, 2006
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    BigV Notebook Deity

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    you can also simply make the buttons on titlebars larger in the advanced section of the appearance tab for the screen properties.
     
    BigV, Nov 26, 2006
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