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Hello, I just wanted to update everyone: after the reboot with the updates in the screenshot above, my desktop icons are back to normal. YAY! Many desktop apps still have microscopic icons though 🧐

I need to restart my laptop because I have these waiting for me. Let's see what the rebooted desktop looks like :crossed

It's the default setting on the ThinkPad P16, a popular business laptop supplied by many corporations, so you'd think it would provide decent "out of the box" experience on Windows 11. Well, to be fair it DID when I first set it up last week. I believe people have reported this issue to MS...

Thanks, I'll give it a shot.

The same thing happens with a more modern app like Flameshot: microscopic icons. However, the point I was trying to make was all this used to render fine before, but now I'm having to spend time to research and patch up the issues introduced by the last patch.

UPDATE: I see what's going on now...it seems like the last update messed up scaling in general, not only icon rendering. For example, this is literally what I see when I use Greenshot: The icons are so microscopic it makes this program unusable on my laptop now, even at the recommended 250%...

Sure, I'll give it a try out of curiosity when I get to the computer, but my old eyes are not comfortable at anything less than the default 250% on the 4K laptop screen.

A ha, this sounds reasonable: Patch Tuesday. They changed something that resulted in this worse UX. I also don't see the desktop a lot, but the OCD side of me can't stand seeing such grievous inconsistency 🙈. I ended up setting Desktop icons to small and using WinSetView to set everything to...

The first relevant result I found was eerily similar in tone to my message! https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/some-icons-are-smaller-than-others-and-have-a-grey/9b6dc489-8cd2-4ac0-af34-c3646aeca249 They left it as "it's a Windows 11 File Explorer bug". I still have another...

I just got my first Windows 11 computer, and after spending a few days setting it up to the way I like it, I woke up one day and noticed that some of my desktop icons look puny now. Example: Unless I'm losing my marbles, I could've sworn that the Notepad2 icon was as big as the other two...

I've been setting up a new Windows 11 Pro (24H2) laptop and have rebooted maybe 100+ times, and so far folders have been restored about 1% of the time. This is more surprising than 0% actually hmm 0_o.

I wish there was a way to turn off location permissions for individual desktop apps :(

Thank you for the advice, @dacrone . I don't mind OneDrive and Office 365 being there as long as they don't cause the signout dialog to shift (since they often load a tiny bit after) every time I sign out.

@Marcus Vinicus thanks for the guidelines. I have all of these toggled off already, but these two ads remain: Have you found a way to get rid of these, too?

As a long-time Windows 10 user moving to Windows 11 (came with new laptop), the first thing I noticed was how janky a lot of things are compared to previous versions. I liked that the interface was more modern and consistent, but IMHO they took a step back with all the ads causing that...