Windows 10: laggy performance when selecting large number of desktop icons

My laptop is laggy when selecting many desktop icons (Using the mouse right-click and then dragging the mouse over the icons with the blueish/transparent square). I don't think it's hardware issue because the CPU is Intel i7-5500u.

**What I mean by laggy is that while you draw that square over the icons it gets slow until you finish selecting.

Talking about that: (In that picture there are no icons, I just wanted to show what I mean by the blueish/transparent square)



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Windows 10 desktop Icon resizing?

I found out how to resize desktop icons, see below ,

To change the desktop icons take the steps below:

· Right click on an empty area of the desktop

· Select ‘View’



From here we will have three options:

· Large Icons

· Medium Icons

· Classic Icons



When you select the options listed above the icons will change based on the size selected.

 

Desktop icons are too large at the 100% setting.

Hi Peter,

To help you with your concern, please try to do the following:

• Right click on the desktop and hover your mouse on View.
• You'll see three options (Large icons, Medium icons, Small icons)
• Select your preferred option.

Let us know how it goes.

Regards.

 

opening icons on desktop

Hello Evaine,

We still can't identify the possible causes of this desktop icon issues you're experiencing. To get a closer look at the root cause, we need additional information. Kindly answer the following questions below:

• Are you also experiencing the same issue when clicking any icons on the Start menu?
• Does the issue still the same when using another mouse? How about using your mouse on another computer?
• Is it also possible to send us a screenshot when the white square box appears after you double click the desktop icon?
• Have you also tried performing a hardware troubleshooter? If you still haven't, just follow the steps below:

Hardware Troubleshoot

Windows has a built-in troubleshooter to check and fix issues with hardware and devices. We would suggest that you run this troubleshooter to check if the issue is with your mouse.

Refer these steps:

• Press Windows key +X, select Control panel
• Change the view by option on the top right to Large icons
• Click on troubleshooting and click on the view all option on the left panel
• Run the Hardware and devices troubleshooter

We look forward to your reply.