Screen display - higher than normal desktop icons

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• Everything on my computer screen appear larger than normal

  I unplugged my computer about 4 days ago to take a trip with me. When I restarted my computer all on my computer including my background, websites, icons, aim, etc. displayed more large and more distortion than normal. The zoom level is 100% normal. This has happened in the past, but once I restarted my computer, my screen is always returned to normal. I would like to know how to fix this because I restarted my computer about 3 or 4 times, but everything that appears on my screen is still distorted and higher than normal.

  Hello Swils117,

  Thank you for using the Microsoft Windows Vista Forums.

  If you haven't tried these steps, that give a try.

  1 / right click on a free part of the Office

  2 / in the drop down menu, click the view option

  3 / according to the context menu, click one of the following options:

  • Large icons
  • Medium-sized icons
  • Classic icons

  The classic icons option will reduce the size the most.  Please let me know if that solved your problem or if you are still having problems.

  Engineer James Microsoft Support answers visit our Microsoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

• Fan speed running higher than normal even if my P.C. Khvan is minimal

  The fan speed will not stop running

  Hello

  Make sure that the system has adequate ventilation. If a PC off all power and remove and reinstall the cards.
  memory and cables (both ends) - tighten not - in fact, remove and replace. Clean the inside of the PC
  to remove dust and lint. A laptop to clean the vents is all you can do without technical support.

  Check with the manufacturer Support system and forums (if any) that there are known problems.

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  You have said not much was however to be sure, you can try these methods.

  How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929135
  How to troubleshoot performance issues in Windows Vista
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/950685

  Optimize the performance of Microsoft Windows Vista
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/959062
  To see everything that is in charge of startup - wait a few minutes without doing anything - then right click on the task - bar
  The task manager - take a look at stored by - Services - process - it is a quick reference (if you have
  a small box in the lower-left - show for all users can check only).

  How to check and change Vista startup programs
  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/79612-startup-programs-enable-disable.html

  A quick check to see that load method 2 is - using MSCONFIG and then display a list of the people here.
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  Tools that should help you:

  Process Explorer - free - find out what are the files, registry keys and other objects processes have opened, the dll
  they loaded and much more. This exceptionally effective utility will show you even owned by each process.
  http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/Sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

  Autoruns - free - see what programs are configured to startup automatically when your system boots and you
  opening of session. Autoruns also shows you the full list of registry and file locations where applications can configure auto-
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  There are many excellent free tools from Sysinternals
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• The desktop icons are inactive with Windows 7 home

  I have problems with the office, after you start everything seems ok. Wait 2-3 minutes, you are no longer able to select or what either by right-clicking on the desktop but the clock on the screen, even though the start menu and everything that it works fine, when you shut down the system, icons, I tried to click on show to be opened because the pc stops.

  Hi 2confused,

  Looks like you need to restore your icons. This may be attributed to a pole by a post from Rob Brown answers by I can't find the link, it's my "ups". In any case, here's how:

  Here is the first thing to try...

  Right-click on the desktop, select display and then "show desktop icons".

  From this point, you can try to restore upward or by a system restore to an earlier point to be icons in your existing installation.

  If you opt for the restoration of the system, here are the instructions:

  How to do a system restore in Windows 7
  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/700-system-restore.html

  So that leaves us with you try to restore the icons on the existing installation. Here are a few methods:

  (References to Vista also apply to Windows 7)
  Difficulty for the desktop icons set in not getting saved after restarting Windows
  http://www.Winhelponline.com/blog/fix-desktop-icons-layout-not-saved-restart/

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  Save and restore the desktop icon layout in Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista (Win 7) - free
  http://www.Winhelponline.com/blog/save-and-restore-desktop-icon-layout/

  Save and restore the desktop icon Layout in Windows Vista (Win 7) - free
  http://www.howtogeek.com/HOWTO/Windows-Vista/save-and-restore-desktop-icon-layout-in-Windows-Vista/

  TIP: Right click on desktop - DISPLAY - uncheck AutoArrange and snap to grid when you want to restore
  icons or the restore will not work. You can re - check those as needed later and apply the
  Snap to grid before the auto arrange.
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  Office catering - free
  http://www.MIDIOX.com/

  Once you are on the site, you can click on "restoring the Office" to bring up the program restoration fund.

  Info
  http://www.MIDIOX.com/HTML/desktop.htm

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  Lock the post Office icons and disable right click
  http://www.techmynd.com/lock-desktop-icons-position-and-disable-right-click/

  Let me know how it works,

  Steve <> Microsoft Partner

• my desktop icons have turned all of a sudden really big, but the display settings are still normal?

  my desktop icons have turned all of a sudden really big, but the display settings are still normal? is there something more, what can I do?

  Displaying the desktop, hold down the CTRL key and rotate the mouse wheel to adjust the size.

• How to restore the desktop icons. They disappeared off the screen when I closed last night.

  have not tried to difficulty as long as not the slightest idea what to do.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-AU/Windows-Vista/show-hide-or-resize-desktop-icons

  Show, hide, or resize desktop icons

  The icons on the desktop give you quick access to shortcuts. You can show or hide if you prefer a blank desktop. You can also resize

  To display the desktop icons

  • Right-click the desktop, point to view, and then click Show Desktop icons.

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  If not, try a system restore to a Date before the problem began:

  Restore point:

  http://www.howtogeek.com/HOWTO/Windows-Vista/using-Windows-Vista-system-restore/

  Do Safe Mode system restore, if it is impossible to do in Normal Mode.

  Try typing F8 at startup and in the list of Boot selections, select Mode safe using ARROW top to go there > and then press ENTER.

  Try a restore of the system once, to choose a Restore Point prior to your problem...

  Click Start > programs > Accessories > system tools > system restore > choose another time > next > etc.

  http://www.windowsvistauserguide.com/system_restore.htm

  Read the above for a very good graph shows how backward more than 5 days in the System Restore Points by checking the correct box.

  See you soon.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• Whenever we start to use our computer, the screen goes black and the message 'Auto adjust is in Prgress'. Then, all of our screen is small and all the icons and pages are smaller than before.

  original title: Auto Adjust

  Hello.

  Whenever we start to use our computer, the screen goes black and the message 'Auto adjust is in Prgress'. Then, all of our screen is small and all the icons and pages are smaller than before.

  I tried restoring the system that works and that gets our screen back to normal but every day that this Auto setting is coming and we can't seem to stop it.

  Any help would be appreciated... Thank you

  Try this:

  Go to the Web site of the manufacturer of your laptop computer-graphics/computer card > drivers and downloads Section > key in your model number > look for the latest Vista drivers > download/install them.

  Then:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-AU/Windows-Vista/change-screen-resolution

  Change the screen resolution

  Screen resolution refers to the clarity of the text and images on your screen. At higher resolutions, items appear sharper. They appear also smaller, so more items adapted to the screen. At lower resolutions, fewer items adapted to the screen, but they are larger and easier to see. At very low resolutions, however, images may have serrated edges.

  See you soon.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• my desktop icons are of normal size, but the image that represents the shortcut that is MSNBC, is very low in the center of the icon

  I have to resize the icons, just the image in them... Thank you!!!

  You can have the Web site icon, but it will be not bigger: it is stuck at 16 by 16 pixels.  This is how the icons on Web pages are programmed.  It's not for lack of Microsoft: it's just the reality of the world.  If you forced the site of MSN icon to be large enough to match the size of the "large" view desktop icons, that's what it would look like:

  

  Of course they don't want people to complain about the ugly tense icon, and since Microsoft cannot replace the icon for each Web page in the world, they simply leave it at the default size so it looks nice.
  Given their big stretch would become extremely blurred, Windows leaves these icons low resolution to their normal size, centered insizing a box.
  >> If you only want it to be as big as XP, you can always do: just to right click on the desktop, select display, then Classic icons... Classic is the size THAT used XP.  Stretched above example is what it would be if you choose Medium or Large inside Windows Vista or 7, which is bigger than anything XP could ever show.

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• Why desktop screen display upwards on the left side of the monitor screen and white is on the right; Properties show nomal.

  Why desktop screen display upwards on the left side of the monitor screen and white is on the right?  When I do my office they show nomal properties.  Everything seems to be normal.  Thank you

  Hi Sdaugherty3,

  Follow the methods below:

  Method 1: Try to change the resolution of the screen and check the results.

   

  To change your screen resolution

  http://www.Microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/proddocs/en-us/display_change_screen_resolution.mspx?mfr=true

  Method 2: If the method above is not enough, you can see the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base and check.

   

  Resources for troubleshooting problems in Windows XP

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/307960

  I hope this helps.

• Manager tasks shows my CPU 100% usage but when I go to the process tab only a handful of programs with a percentage higher than 0 if displayed and none of those who are more than 3%

  Original title: Task Manager

  Manager tasks shows my CPU 100% usage but when I go to the processes tab and sort by CPU usage there are only a handful of programs with a percentage higher than 0 if displayed and none of those who are more than 3%.  What else is using my system resources that is not displayed by the Task Manager?

  Click Show processes from all users . There may be other systemic processes and processes that run under other accounts.

  Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Desktop Experience]

• Desktop icons have all disappeared completely and cannot add new ones to the desktop display.

  I use Windows Vista Business Service Pack 1 on a Toshiba individual 5 months old Pro.
  Everything works well except all my desktop icons disappeared last week for example Recycle Bin, Internet Explorer, etc.
  I have activated since the "Desktop >" section of the taskbar and can now access all the icons in a vertical list.
  If I try to add a new icon to real desktop screen does not appear, but it does not produce a copy that can be chosen amongst the "Desktop >" list on the taskbar.
  How can I display the icons on the new real desktop?

  Right-click on the desktop, click on the "View" menu

  In the submenu at the bottom, there is an entry named "show desktop icons".
  Click here, if it is not already.

  

  Return your icons?

  Please let us know how it goes.

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• Icons on the homepage are larger than normal, how can I make it smaller. __

  my desktop icons are larger than normal, how can I make the smaller

  Right click on the desktop and click on views and there should be three options for selecting the size of the icons.  If they are too big, choose one of the smaller options and see if it suits you better.

  I hope this helps.

  Good luck!

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• Impossible to get desktop icons to stick to the main screen.

  My main screen to the right of my secondary monitor. How can I stop my desktop icons to switch to the secondary display (left) after the reboot?

  Hello

  Windows stacks icons in columns on the left side of the office. But you're not stuck with that arrangement. You can move an icon by dragging it to a new location on the desktop.

  To unlock the icons so that you can move them again:

  a. right click on an area empty office.

  b. click viewand then click auto arrange , clear the check box next to it.

  See: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/The-desktop-overview

• the orientation desktop icon - is there a way to keep my icons in a vertical rather than horizontal?

  I want to keep the icons just above the taskbar in an upright position without them returning to the horizontal position, they are when I first start my laptop.  Is there a way to keep my icons in a vertical rather than horizontal?

  Hello

  1. are you talking about the desktop icons?

  If you mean the desktop icons, you can drag the icons and place it wherever you want on the screen.

  If you are referring to some other icons, then I suggest you to give us more information about the issue so that we can better help you.

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• Desktop icons on my profile in huge boxes. The other profile is normal.

  My desktop icons are now big, square, transparent boxes that cover my entire screen.  That has changed from one day to the next.  I tried to use a different wallpaper and image changes, but the icons are still distorted.  Difficulty? I use Windows 7.

  My desktop icons are now big, square, transparent boxes that cover my entire screen.  That has changed from one day to the next.  I tried to use a different wallpaper and image changes, but the icons are still distorted.  Difficulty? I use Windows 7.

  1. right click on a free space of the office > view > select the size you want.

  2. modify the ppp settings
  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/443-DPI-display-size-settings-change.html . for the benefits of others looking for answers, please mark as answer suggestion if it solves your problem.