Large Desktop Shortcut Icons

Published on March 29, 2007 By babbageleaf In Windows XP

I was wondering: in Windows XP, is it possible to change the size of the icons on your desktop from the default of 32x32? I would like to get some big, sexy 128x128 or so icons on there. Is there any hope of that?

Comments

Bebi Bulma

on Mar 30, 2007

You can do it with IconX or Avedesk, I use Avedesk and created a tutorial here for it.

babbageleaf

on Mar 30, 2007

What is the ram/cpu usage like for avedesk?

Bebi Bulma

on Mar 30, 2007

Mine is using 5mb right now (out of an available 1GB).

babbageleaf

on Mar 30, 2007

Yeah I'm running it right now and its using 3mb. Definitely acceptable. Thanks a lot for your help!!

Bebi Bulma

on Mar 30, 2007

No problem.

Bichur

on Mar 31, 2007

you can also create individual icons of any size (i had some up to 512) with desktopx

babbageleaf

on Apr 02, 2007

well i actually didn't want to run desktopx. but this avedesk is exactly what i was looking for. very low ram usage too.

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