# Anyone here a Windows XP guru? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 13, 2004, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-a-windows-xp-guru/239745 "2004-04-13T10:01:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bernard\_Marx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@Bernard\_Marx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bernard_Marx)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-a-windows-xp-guru/239745/1 "2004-04-13T10:01:14Z")
Does anyone know how I can change the size and/or resolution of the icons in the notification area of the taskbar (ie the power, volume, connection icons etc) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-a-windows-xp-guru/239745/2 "2004-04-13T10:13:25Z")
I don’t know exactly, but it is related to the size of the caption buttons (the three control buttons at the right-hand side of the caption bar of most windows) - I reduced the size of my caption buttons and my tray icons are now smaller; the odd thng is that sometimes they appear as a double row of icons and other times they line up in a single row. ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-a-windows-xp-guru/239745/3 "2004-04-13T10:24:09Z")
What exactly are you trying to achieve ? Accordinly we can think up some alternatives. Here’s one option: Control Panel / Display / Appearance / Advanced / Item: Caption Buttons. Type in the size you want to change to. ---
**Author:** ![Bernard\_Marx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@Bernard\_Marx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bernard_Marx)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-a-windows-xp-guru/239745/4 "2004-04-13T10:45:30Z")
Thanks. That solved the size problem, but the icons are still very blocky and low-res. This is a new computer and I’ve been playing around with the settings trying to make things look the way I like them. Everything else on the screen is a nice pretty hi-res apart from these icons. Ideas? Any help greatly appreciated… ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-a-windows-xp-guru/239745/5 "2004-04-13T10:58:20Z")
I don’t think there’s any way around the blockiness; the icon is embedded in the actual program and, unlike with shortcuts, there doesn’t seem to be a way of persuading Windows to use a different one. ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-a-windows-xp-guru/239745/6 "2004-04-13T11:43:03Z")
Slight hijack but I don’t think it really needs its own thread. Is there any way to change all of the “Titles” in Windows Explorer to “Icons”? I know how to manually do individual folders by clicking on the Views button in the taskbar, but I don’t know how to make it universal… ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2004, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-a-windows-xp-guru/239745/7 "2004-04-13T11:47:33Z")
Tools\>Folder Options\>View\>Apply to all folders