Windows 10: Start panel icon size

There are various sizes available for buttons on the Start panel. I've created a bunch of icons for some of my folders. When I resize them to small on the Start panel they are only about ¼" square, but I note that many of the supplied app icons take up the whole ½" square available in the small size.

Is there a way to get my custom icons to show up bigger in Start? They are all 256x256 pixels, so they are plenty big enough (they show as a 1" square on the actual folder when I use "Large Icons" in view). FOr some of them I'd like to be able to fill the 1" square size on Start for "medium size".

Cheers
FF

:)

 

Text size at 250%

Right click Start icon, Control Panel (with View By: Small icons
selected), Display. You can change text sizes there.

 

Possible to Change text size of customization windows? - NOT Magnifier

Hi,

Yes, you can increase the font size in the start menu by following these steps:

Go to Control panel, then click on the 'view by' option in the top right and change it to large icons. Click on display and you should be able to change the test size under the option 'Change only the text size'.

 

For tiles you should use 256x256 pixel .png and an XML .VisualElementsManifest file.
See this tutorial from @Hopachi at Eight Forums(he's also very active here in Ten Forums too!): Solved Custom Tiles (for Desktop Apps)



Information Here is an example from one of mine:
the png I chose to use saved as Skype,png:




***You can use this XML file as a template and just change the names in bold***
Code: <Application xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'> <VisualElements ShowNameOnSquare150x150Logo='on' Square150x150Logo='Skype.png' Square70x70Logo='Skype.png' ForegroundText='light' BackgroundColor='#343434'/> </Application>[/quote] In NotePad, save as Skype.VisualElementsManifest
Both must have & use the EXACT same name as the application executable and have to be placed in the same folder as the executable:





Lastly my tile(with some others I have created.

 

Thanks for that Cliff. So does that mean that the icons I have for folders have to remain is the ¼" squares when they are "small", because they are not executables (just ordinary old folders)?

 

HEY! WAIT! It works for folders. I had to add .xml after .VisualElementsManifest. Just have to add the png and xml into the folder that the target folder is in (which in this particular case was straight to C drive).

That's great - thanks very much Cliff!

 

You're welcome. Yep I even have created tile packs for .bat files such as:
Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup&sfc/scannow&Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth&sfc/scannow&pause

 

One thing I left out(sorry) is to delete the old tile shortcut in C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs first right click the executable(or file) and select pin to start. If it doesn't pin after 2-3 tries, reboot(this clears the system cache) and try it again.

 

Hmmmmm. This is particularly bizarre. I had one folder working nicely. Then I unpinned it to show my partner how this is done, and NO MATTER WHAT it will not allow itself to be re-pinned (this is a folder). The only way I could find around this was to rename the folder (changing the png and xml data as well). But wait for it......all I did was change the name to lower case........

Perhaps a reboot might clear the cache out for that as well, so I'll try that (because for this folder it creates problems on another level if the name changes - Visual Basic Macros......).

EDIT: Yes, a reboot fixed that problem. I also had an allied problem when I had hidden the png and xml files before I had pinned the folder to Start - big mistake. Results in once more not being able to pin it without a reboot. However, once everything is set up it's no problem to hide the files.

 

Cliff, do you know if there is a way to pin files to Start? Right click doesn't bring up that option, but given that they are just shortcuts being handed to Start you'd think there was a way of pinning them there. Same goes for pinning to the taskbar - there's one Excel file in particular that I'd like to pin there.

BTW, this all comes about because of the PITA desktop icons jumping around like they've got St Vitus dance. (yeah I know - Desklock - 'cept it ain't foolproof by a helluva long way and it also makes it a pain to drag stuff onto emails or anywhere else....).

Once I've got this sorted out I only have to find out how to make Win 10 remember my folder sizes and positions on-screen.......despite several questions on several forums I still can't find an answer to that.

 

For a file, right click and select Send to desktop, which creates a shortcut.
Then right click the shortcut, and select Cut.
Then paste it in C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
It then shows up in the All apps portion of the Start Menu.
Find your file right click, select Pin to start.
Done.




Took me a couple of minutes to find a work around, but I have messed around in the Start Menu\Programs folder enough*Smile

 

Oh crap!!!


Note I almost forgot to tell you, when you Delete the file, make sure you delete the shortcut first, because you could have problems later getting rid of it, as the file no longer exist that's connected to the tile & short cut. This happens with desktop icons too.

 

Champion! That was a missing link for me, and all is good! Tomorrow I'll fool with trying to get a custom button in there for that as well.

Thanks again Cliff - excellent assistance!

 

Glad to have helped. Now watch out, creating custom tiles, becomes addictive!

 

Errrr, yeah, I already worked that out two days ago.......*Biggrin

Do you know if there's a solution to this:

I mean, it's the dumbest thing about Win 10 (apart from the desktop icons jumping around - that REALLY sucks)! No problem in XP remembering the sizes and monitors they were displayed upon.