Uselessly sized Aero Peek and Taskbar icons, anyone working on resize?

What is your screen resolution?

You can try changing DPI scaling
Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Display

or Settings > System > Display

This is a global setting methinks - everything gets larger.

5670x1080

125 dpi ruins everything, except icons. Those look normal at that point, but my fonts are oversized and blurry as hell. I think this issue has been well documented when using higher DPI. Clearly, I don't need a higher dpi since StartIsBack does what I want, I just don't like relying on third party apps that give me more features than I care to have.

Ok, thanks, I thought that might not be the solution you wanted. MS will have to address this at some point, screen resolutions keep getting higher and higher

Consider Startisback as a temporary workaround.

This worked for me. Simple regedit entry

trebills said:

This worked for me. Simple regedit entry

Has anyone tried this in Windows 10?

good one! I had the same problem, but to fix it press "ctrl" and turn your mouse wheel, you can make them as large or as small as you wish.

mrpeters said:

Yeah -- really don't want to use a third party application to accomplish this. Clearly, there is a way to adjust the icon size. I'm willing to pay him for that information, but no response yet.

I would have expected AppliedDPI or Shell Icon Size to do the trick, but no such luck!

I am guessing he is leveraging some code. I don't think he is just registry hacking.

Dick Jagger said:

Has anyone tried this in Windows 10?

Yes I did it works flawlessly.

trebills said:

Yes I did it works flawlessly.

Screenshot? Not working here. I've tried 800px and 1024px wide (I have 5670x1080 space) and they're just as small as ever, even after a log off and a reboot.

mrpeters said:

Screenshot? Not working here. I've tried 800px and 1024px wide (I have 5670x1080 space) and they're just as small as ever, even after a log off and a reboot.

All I did was change the size by manually adding the MinThumbSizePx entry into the registry.
Open up regedit and navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband


Right click and select new DWORD (32-bit) Value
Name is MinThumbSizePx
Change Base to Hexadecimal
Then Change Value data to the size you want yours, I have mine set to 800.

Finally, log off and log back in.


Thats all I did. Also, I am running Windows 10 Pro x64.