Windows 10: Change Icons Text Size in Windows 10

Thank you @sleeper0993 for letting me know, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

The link for 14 (normal) as been fixed.

I can do this for "Palette Titles", but I haven't found an example of this in Windows 10 yet. Do you have one?

 

Thanks for fixing that link so fast! After looking for some examples, I found an answer in answers.microsoftDOTcom where they said Palette Titles were discontinued and is not available in Windows 10 and in that case the .reg file for it wouldn't be needed.

 

You're most welcome.

I was thinking that they may have been discontinued.

 

So do we know at this stage what out of all this is going to be customisable in the Creators Update. Specifically which of these will be do-able ? These are the settings I use as I find the default non bold text very bland and for me the visual appearance in everyday use is very important.

Title Bars 11 Bold
Menus 9 Bold
Message Boxes 9 Bold
Palette Title 9 Standard
Icons 12 Bold
Tooltips 12 Bold

 

Hello @Mooly, *Smile

You can still manually change all of those using the .reg files from the tutorials below except for "palette titles" in Windows 10 Creators Update. "Palette titles" are no longer available.

• How to Change Text Size of Icons in Windows 10
• How to Change Text Size for Menus in Windows 10
• How to Change Text Size for Message Boxes in Windows 10
• How to Change Text Size for Title Bars in Windows 10
• How to Change Text Size for Tooltips in Windows 10

 

Thanks for the info and links Shawn, I had visions of not being able to get the look I would want. Many of those items are (to me anyway) such basic things to customise that I wonder what MS are thinking of in removing them from the normal user interface.

 

You're welcome. Hopefully MS will add them to Settings.

 

I see that 'Display' has been removed from control panel and as yet can not find a 'user option' to alter the fonts. Looks like I will have to try the reg files *Smile

To be continued......

 

...... your reg files worked brilliantly *Smile in fact I've saved them all for future use.

For information... and the previous settings I used in the AU update such as 'Icons 12 Bold' do not correspond in size to the new settings created by the reg files. For example, Icons 12 in the AU update now need to be set to size 14 for the same effect. Same for menus. 9 bold has now to be 11 bold for the same size as before.

I wouldn't like to say whether that is PC specific (or just an observed difference for me) or whether it applies generally.

To not have these settings as standard in the CU update is a MAJOR omission imo and something that MS should address. Visuals are so very important to the look and feel of an OS.

 

I'm thinking it may have to do with all the work Microsoft is doing with DPI scaling to try and make the text look clearer.

 

I joined this forum just so I could extend my thanks. I was going round and round trying to find that drop down menu where I could change simply the text size and not everything after installing the newest update yesterday evening. Not only did it allow me to get my preferred size back on most things, it also told me my attempts at finding that drop down menu were futile. Thank you sooooo very much!

 

You're most welcome garizona, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

 

Thanks to the BrinkMan, after applying the REG file overseeing the text size of icons in Windows, the size of objects in File Explorer, let alone on the Chrome Bookmarks bar, are much more to my liking. Sweet!

 

Brink,

The above was what I was talking about, it was/is available in 1607 but removed in Creator
and all of your great hacks and work-arounds are wonderful, but I think something that has always been there with past Windows versions should have remained. It is so useful, and I just don't feel people should have to change registry entries and hack their OS to do the most basic of operations.

Your post was informative.

 

It would be nice if Microsoft would have this option available to change in Settings instead of having to do so via the registry.

This would be something good for everyone to send feedback for.

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