Personalization Change Size of Taskbar Icons in Windows 11

Wisewiz · Jun 20, 2021

Thank you, sir.

On a related (and troublesome in old Windows 10) topic, is there a way to increase the size of the notification tray icons in W11? They look mighty tiny in your screenshots, and I recall many complaints on the Net that users couldn't find a way to increase the size of those icons.

Brink · Jun 20, 2021

Wisewiz said:
Thank you, sir.

On a related (and troublesome in old Windows 10) topic, is there a way to increase the size of the notification tray icons in W11? They look mighty tiny in your screenshots, and I recall many complaints on the Net that users couldn't find a way to increase the size of those icons.

I'm only aware of making the notification area icons larger by increasing the DPI scaling level. This of course will make everything larger.

Wisewiz · Jun 20, 2021

Bummer. I was hoping they'd get around to making those icons independently scalable. OTOH, those icons seldom require r/l clicking, compared to taskbar icons, so having them writ large may not be very important.

IownAmoneyPit · Jun 29, 2021

Thanks @Brink the Icons look too big @125 DPI and even bigger @150 DPI.

JGToy · Jul 1, 2021

Whishing that all this come back to normal again!

dencal · Jul 5, 2021

Shawn......Have tried downloading your BAT File without success.
Opened Regedit and changed the DWORD VALUE to 2 as shown....no noticeable difference

Brink · Jul 5, 2021

dencal said:
Shawn......Have tried downloading your BAT File without success.
Opened Regedit and changed the DWORD VALUE to 2 as shown....no noticeable difference

Hello mate,

It looks like you will need to unblock the download to allow it.

It's required to restart the explorer process to apply after making the registry change.

dencal · Jul 5, 2021

Brink said:
Hello mate, :)

It looks like you will need to unblock the download to allow it.

It's required to restart the explorer process to apply after making the registry change.

Thanks Shawn.....success.....second option did the job

Brink · Jul 5, 2021

dencal said:
Thanks Shawn.....success.....second option did the job

Almighty1 · Jul 11, 2021

Just a comment that with a in-place repair installation, the setting previous applied is kept which for me was small and did not revert back to medium. :)

Texas Gore · Aug 15, 2021

Date & Time become mis-aligned when I use the TaskbarSi DWORD with a value of 0

Almighty1 · Aug 15, 2021

Texas Gore said:
Date & Time become mis-aligned when I use the TaskbarSi DWORD with a value of 0

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There was a thread about this within the past few weeks except I couldn't find it after spending some time but basically....
This has been a problem ever since 22000.65 as Microsoft also responded they will not fix it as it's a unsupported registry hack.

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Stigg · Aug 15, 2021

Almighty1 said:
This has been a problem ever since 22000.65 as Microsoft also responded they will not fix it as it's a unsupported registry hack.

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This is why I am always hesitant to do registry hacks on the user interface. Especially on an operating system in beta.
You never know how long it's gonna be supported.

Brink · Aug 15, 2021

Stigg said:
This is why I am always hesitant to do registry hacks on the user interface. Especially on an operating system in beta.
You never know how long it's gonna be supported.

That's why I always include an undo option for those that do try them.

Texas Gore · Aug 16, 2021

Ah, ok. Thanks guys :)
Running with default now. A touch annoying because it's huge and gets in the way even with auto-hide

Almighty1 · Aug 16, 2021

Texas Gore said:
Ah, ok. Thanks guys :)
Running with default now. A touch annoying because it's huge and gets in the way even with auto-hide

There is another way to get the icons small but ofcourse everything else in general will be small, that's to change the dpi scaling.

Change Display DPI Scaling Level in Windows 11 Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to change the DPI scaling level for all or specific displays to make everything appear smaller or larger on the display(s) for your account in Windows 11. Dots per inch (DPI) is the physical measurement of number of pixels in a linear inch of a display. DPI is a...

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Texas Gore · Aug 16, 2021

Almighty1 said:
There is another way to get the icons small but ofcourse everything else in general will be small, that's to change the dpi scaling.

Change Display DPI Scaling Level in Windows 11 Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to change the DPI scaling level for all or specific displays to make everything appear smaller or larger on the display(s) for your account in Windows 11. Dots per inch (DPI) is the physical measurement of number of pixels in a linear inch of a display. DPI is a...

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Nice, thanks. I'll check it out :)

Texas Gore · Aug 17, 2021

Ok, I followed to DPI tut', changing Win8DpiScaling to 1 and tried LogPixels 72 at first and when that did nothing except telling me "A custom scale factor is set." with the option to "Turn off custom scaling and sign out" in Settings>Display, I tried LogPixels at 48. Still nothing. Tried with Win8DpiScaling 0 as well. Nada.

Seems like they don't want people to use scaling less than 100%.
Oh well. Medium sized get-in-the-way annoying taskbar it is.

So much frustrating cosmetic stuff in Win11. Simple things. And they don't seem to care.

Almighty1 · Aug 18, 2021

Texas Gore said:
Ok, I followed to DPI tut', changing Win8DpiScaling to 1 and tried LogPixels 72 at first and when that did nothing except telling me "A custom scale factor is set." with the option to "Turn off custom scaling and sign out" in Settings>Display, I tried LogPixels at 48. Still nothing. Tried with Win8DpiScaling 0 as well. Nada.

Seems like they don't want people to use scaling less than 100%.
Oh well. Medium sized get-in-the-way annoying taskbar it is.

So much frustrating cosmetic stuff in Win11. Simple things. And they don't seem to care.

Hard to say, easier to just use method 2 which does not require doing the registry. On my system with a 15" 4K 3840x2160 screen, the default is 250% and it already gets smaller at 225% and then 200% except the text is blury which was fixed with method 2 at 150dpi.