Small icon displayed instead of enlarged icon

[illused]

When I zoom in past "Medium Icons" only the small icon displays.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f77lwlq66pav0fd/icon-resize-error.png?dl=0

 

[gardenman]

Hi, the screen shot you provided looks zoomed in, which makes it a bit more difficult to understand what's really going on, but I'll take a guess anyway. Based on the size of the scroll bar, it appears as if your desktop icons are set to the standard 48 pixel size, yet it looks like your desktop icons are showing up as the 24 x 24 size.

Someone else had this problem in Windows 7 and their resolution was to rebuild the icon cache. Read about it here: https://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/208746-desktop-icons-show-wrong-size.html

Try rebuilding the icon cache. Here are the Windows 10 instructions: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5645-rebuild-icon-cache-windows-10-a.html I would use Option #1 on that page, and it will ask you to reboot when it's done.

 

[illused]

Hmm. Too good to be true unfortunately, it didn't work.
Thanks for the suggestion. The icon was actually rebuilt, because before I restarted they didn't display, but they built as a tiny (48x48) size. I thought it was actually 32 pixels, I didn't realise that 48 was the new standard.
It's not zoomed, that's the actual resolution. But is it possible to just have the icons displayed at double their size? It looks pretty stupid with the solid box around it. Should I manually create the enlarged icon file and assign it? I guess I can do that for my desktop because it just bugs me but seriously?

 

[illused]

*** my problem was that you can SEE in that photo that there has been a larger 92x92 icon BUILT IN. Why isn't it used?

 

[illused]

Oh, I've worked it out. I simply changed the icon size to small and then back to medium. I guess it didn't *actually* rebuild the icons?

(I thought I had done that before)

 

[gardenman]

I'm glad you got it figured out.

If you ran the batch file, it likely did rebuild the icon cache. (A reboot is required after running the batch file.) But simply rebuilding the icon cache doesn't always solve all problems.

I think icons are only displayed up to 48 x 48 if they are 48 in size, or smaller. Each program/file can have different sized icons. It looked like your desktop was set to use icons which are 128 x 128, but many programs don't have icons that large therefore it can only display icons up to 48 x 48. Changing the desktop icon size removed the big square around the icons because they weren't large enough to fill the square.

Take care.