{"id":51688,"date":"2015-09-01T19:31:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T19:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=51688"},"modified":"2015-09-01T19:31:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T19:31:45","slug":"change-windows-10-desktop-icon-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/change-windows-10-desktop-icon-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Change Windows 10 Desktop Icon Views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p><i><font SIZE=\"2\">How to change the desktop icons view in Windows 10.&#8211;PC Pitstop.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<h4>Change Windows 10 Desktop Icon Views<\/h4>\n<p>by Anand Khanse for The Windows Club<\/p>\n<p>On your Windows desktop, we place icon shortcuts to our oft-accessed programs, files and folders. While the default icons view is that they are displayed as icons in Medium size, there are other ways too, that icons can be displayed. Today, lets have a look at how we can change desktop icons view in Windows 10 to Large, Small, and even Details and List view \u2013 as they appear in File Explorer in Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p>When you right-click on the Windows desktop, select View, you will see 3 options, Large icons, Medium icons and Small icons.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/desktop-icons-400x325.png\" alt=\"desktop-icons-400x325\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-51689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/desktop-icons-400x325.png 400w, https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/desktop-icons-400x325-300x244.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"left\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Change desktop icons view in Windows 10<\/p>\n<p>Apart from there 3 view, you can also display the desktop icons in List &#038; Details view, as we display our files and folders in File Explorer. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewindowsclub.com\/change-desktop-icons-view-windows-10\" target=\"_blank\">Let us see each of these 5 views-Article Continued Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to change the desktop icons view in Windows 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":51468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[4721],"class_list":["post-51688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-windows-club","tag-windows-10"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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