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Server 2008 Remote Desktop (terminal server) Desktop Icon Sizing

Hello,
I'm currently bringing up a new terminal server, running 2008, replacing a 2003 machine. Now, I have a user that wants to make the icons on her desktop smaller, and I can't for the life of me find where to make the change.

I found the reg key HKCU\Control Panel\desktop\WindowsMetrics\Sell Icon Size, default value was 32. I changed this to 15, logged off/on, not change, rebooted, no change.

Any sugegstions?

Darius Ghassem

On the desktop go to properties or go into control panel you can change the desktop icons size here.

JamesonJendreas

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Nope, there are no "properties" for the desktop in 2008 when running under terminal services - I have personalize, but there are no options for Icon size. The only thing I can do is increase the DPI of text

Darius Ghassem

No Desktop under Control Panel?

JamesonJendreas

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Nope, no desktop settings under control panel. I can't even change the resolution when using RDP (not that I'd want to anyway, that's set on the client). See attached screenshot. Under ease of access there's the option to change the DPI settings, but this only allows for enlarging, not shrinking. I downloaded a tool I found on a Citrix forum, but it only changes the font sizes and not the icon sizes.

I even attempted to add GodMode to look around (and like an idiot I put it on the users desktop) but creating the GodMode shortcut borked Explorer. I ended up having to log in as another user and delete the shortcut from the command prompt (just browsing to the users desktop folder would crash explorer)

I'm surprised the reg key mentioned about doesn't do it....

Cheers
JJ
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Darius Ghassem

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverTS/thread/11fe8098-a772-441a-b2ae-fc87865d9376/

http://www.techimo.com/forum/applications-operating-systems/161556-decrease-icon-size.html

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JamesonJendreas

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Figured this one out myself - accepting the solution to add to the KB