You can increase and decrease the size of your desktop icons in Windows 7 using . CTRL + Mouse Scroll. It's a great trick for both those who like to tightly fit a lot of icons, ...

Desktop icon positions not being saved? If your Desktop icons keep jumping, bouncing, rearranging or moving after Reboot or Refresh on Windows 11/10, see this post.

Q: We converted from Windows 7 to Windows 10 a few months ago. Previously, I was able to establish desktop icons for frequently used programs (Quicken, Word, Excel, etc.). But I lost these icons af… ...

Quick Tip: If you prefer to call the desktop icon "Computer," like in Windows 7, instead of "This PC", you can quickly right-click the icon and choose the Rename option. Once you change the name ...

Go to the Control Panel and select "Personalize". Now, find the "Change Desktop Icons" option in the "Personalize" menu and click on it. A dialog box similar to the one in Windows 10 and 11 should ...

After logging in, Windows 7 first set up the desktop piece by piece, i.e. the taskbar, the desktop window, icons for applications, and even the background image.

Sometimes users will notice that their taskbar and desktop icons have gone missing. There are different methods of bringing back the desktop icons and taskbar on the computer screen. This article will ...

I've been customizing my Windows UI extensively for about five years now, and these are the programs, resources, and tools I ...

How to create custom desktop icons on Windows 11. Alternatively, if you know the app's location, you can create a shortcut to show it on the desktop. To create a custom desktop icon, use these steps: ...

Add IE icon to Windows 7 desktop. This change was apparently made to ensure that Internet Explorer 8 could be removed easily for compliance reasons.

Reader Edwin wants to know how to change the themes in Windows 7. Specifically, he has multiple photos he wants to use for his desktop background, but can’t find a way to add more than one.

Pinning a Show Desktop icon to the taskbar in Windows 7 won't work the way it did in pretty much every earlier version of Windows. While you can still create the "Show Desktop.scf" script, ...