I could really use some help here.

[William769]

I just hooked up a 55 inch tv as my monitor for my computer. I love the screen resolution of 1920X1080 but the icons on my desktop are really small to the point I almost cannot see what they are. Is this a easy fix.

Thanks for any and all help.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Try right clicking anywhere on the desktop - should take you to personalized settings -

you can then choose display settings and play around with the options there.

[William769]

2. I tried that.

If I get off the current resolution the icons are bigger, but then I web pages are a bit smaller. I guess I'm greedy and want it all. HAHA!

But thanks for that, this is something I guess I will have to ponder.

EDIT: going back to what you said, I found "Make text and other items larger or smaller" That worked!

THANK YOU!

BIll

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. My pleasure!

[pokerfan]

3. I don't understand

I'm running 1920x1080 on a 23" monitor. Wouldn't the icons on a 55" screen be more than twice as large?

[William769]

4. You would think.

For some reason mine went smaller. See the edit in my post above on how I fixed it.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

6. icons on a 55" TV...

...will be about 2.4 times bigger than icons on a 23" widescreen monitor. However, most folks sit 18" to 24" from a monitor and 7 to 12 FEET from a TV.

Using Win7, right click on a blank area of desktop and select "personalize".
In that window, in the lower left corner, is a link "display".
This gives you the option to increase the size 25 or 50% on my 22 inch screen, maybe more on a 55 inch.

This leaves the resolution at 1920 x 1080 but makes icons, text, etc bigger.

[RC]

7. On XP, the procedure is

Right click on the Desk Top
Select Properties
Appearance tab
Effect button
Put check in Use Large Icons

OK back out

Windows 7 should have something similar, one would think.

[ChromeFoundry]

8. Using Windows 7 ???

left-click on the desktop.
hold down the Ctrl key and roll your the wheel on your mouse up until all the icons are the size you desire.

[William769]

9. Yes windows 7.

And thats friggin awesome!

Thank you.