large, blurry icons in taskbar and elsewhere

I had the same problem until half-an-hour ago. I read suggestions on
the MS website that didn't solve the problem but that suggested a
cause. I decided playing around with the "cause" might lead to a
solution and it did.

I don't know which of the following actually solved the problem. I
suspect it was actions 8 - 11.

Actions:
1. Opened Display Properties. (Go to desktop; right-click; select
properties)
2. Selected "Appearance" Tab.
3. Selected "Advanced" option.
4. Wrote down default values for a number of choices (button size,
various icon sizes, etc.); then changed them to lower values.
5. Rebooted. [definitely no improvement yet]
6. Returned all values to original default values.
7. Rebooted. [Nothing yet.]
8. Opened Display Properties.
9. Selected "Appearance" Tab.
10. Changed "Windows and Buttons" option from "Windows XP" to "Windows
Classic"; selected Apply and Okay.
11. Returned to same window and changed "Windows and Buttons" option
back from "Windows Classic" to "Windows XP"; selected Apply and Okay.
Then rebooted.

And that did the trick.

Please, anyone, let me know if any of this works for you.



a nonymous Wrote:
> "Zoe Gillenwater" Zoe Gillenwater.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:
> | Yesterday I installed the trial version of JAWS 6.0 on my Windows XP
> (SP1)
> | computer. After the installation had completed, I was told I needed
> to
> | restart my computer. After I restarted, I found that many of my
> icons had
> | been made bigger. Basically, it is all the icons that are not on the
> desktop
> | or in the start menu. The desktop and start menu icons were
> unchanged, and I
> | can change their size at will through the Start Menu properties
> dialog box
> | and the Desktop properties dialog box. These dialogs do not affect
> the icons
> | I am having trouble with. All other icons (task bar, programs list,
> top left
> | corner of each window, list of wallpapers, list of attachments in my
> email
> | program, etc.) have been made about 50% larger and are very
> pixellated.
> |
> | My company's computer admin has confirmed that there are no dialogs
> where I
> | can change the size of these icons. Some internal Windows file has
> been
> | messed with to do this. Any idea which one and how I can fix it to
> get back
> | my nice, smooth, small icons?
> |
> | Thanks,
>
>
> Zoe,
> This may help:
>
> Copy the following lines and paste into Notepad,
> then File - Save As - "Fix-Icons.REG",
> then right-click "Fix-Icons.REG" - Merge - OK - OK
>
>
> Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
>
> [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\desktop\WindowMetrics]
> "Shell Icon BPP"="16"
> "Shell Icon Size"="32"


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