Question: Latest on Windows 11 Home has no icons?

Andacar · Mar 22, 2024

For me one very unwelcome recent change in Windows 11 was that scalable icons disappeared in Windows Home, replaced with tiles. Is there any indication Microsoft plans to fix this issue, or are we just stuck with it?

Thanks!

Berton · Mar 22, 2024

Which icons? Does right-click of the Desktop and View with different icon sizes listed not work? Also involved is the the Display Settings function on that menu and/or the Personalize settings. They're about the same as in Win10.

Andacar · Mar 22, 2024

I mean the view settings in Quick Access.

Berton · Mar 22, 2024

The only way I've found is the Display Settings but it's a global change, affects everything and relies upon what the graphics adapter and its drivers can handle. Check the Custom Scaling, my Notebook is set for 150% but Custom shows it can go to 500% but might not be too good on a 14" screen.

Ghot · Mar 22, 2024

Andacar said:
I mean the view settings in Quick Access.

Do Option 1 step #3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 here... this will bring back the Windows 10 Context menus

Disable "Show more options" context menu in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable having to click on "Show more options" to see the full context menu for your account or all users in Windows 11. When you right click on an item in Windows 11, you will see a new modern condensed context menu with Show more options...

www.elevenforum.com

Like so...

It will also bring back the other classic Context Menus also...

000000 Win 11 - START and Context Menus.png

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Here's some other things that may help...

Quickie Eleven Forum Setup Guide for new Members

Quickie Interface tour... Quickie set up... At the top right, click on your name, then choose "Preferences". Then go through everything on the left side. Quickie navigation... Click Forums and choose a subforum, OR... Click Forums, then New Posts or What's New Ranks, Trophies...

www.elevenforum.com

Macrium Reflect, AOMEI Backupper and Hasleo Backup Suite - GUIDES

How to use backup software... 1. When everything is working perfectly... make a full Windows backup. 2. Then, if something breaks... restore from the latest backup. 3. Then... try "whatever you were doing" a different way. If it still breaks Windows, then... go to step #2. 4. Repeat...

www.elevenforum.com

Windows 11 Tweaks - Leader Board.

These are tweaks I've seen asked for... many times. They are collected here for easy access. All of these and more can be found in the Eleven Forum Tutorials section. Make sure to read the "notes" in the various tutorials. At the bottom of the first post in all the "tutorials", there are...

www.elevenforum.com

Andacar · Mar 22, 2024

OK, I'll give this a shot. Thanks.

Ghot · Mar 23, 2024

Andacar said:
OK, I'll give this a shot. Thanks.

On these forums, there's a tutorial for.... everything.
I collected the ones most commonly requested in the Windows 11 Tweaks - Leader Board link above.

Start using backup software (if you aren't already).
On Win 11, it'll be your safety net.

Win 10 is pretty stable... now. But MS is still playing around with Win 11. They like breaking things.

On the right, is MS and their antics.
On the left, is how we have to react to MS's antics...

Andacar · Mar 23, 2024

OK thanks. Yes I know about backup. I tried this and it still gives me permissions errors. Are you sure changing the context menus will bring back large icons?

Ghot · Mar 23, 2024

Andacar said:
OK thanks. Yes I know about backup. I tried this and it still gives me permissions errors. Are you sure changing the context menus will bring back large icons?

It will bring back the option to choose... the icon size.

The drop down menu at the top is what I see when I click View in File Explorer.
The context menu at the bottom, is what I see when I right click on a blank space in File Explorer and choose: View

Andacar · Mar 23, 2024

OK thanks! I'll run through this again.

Andacar · Mar 23, 2024

OK, here's where I stand. When I run the registry file I get this:

According to Regedit, the permissions for the registry look like this:

Ghot · Mar 23, 2024

Andacar said:
OK, here's where I stand. When I run the registry file I get this:

I don't know why your comp is doing that.
Are you running some 3rd party Tweaking program, or 3rd party Anitvirus?

Maybe try one of the other Options in the tutorial?

Andacar · Mar 23, 2024

No I'm not. I'll try some of the other options. Thanks for your patience.

Andacar · Mar 23, 2024

OK, I finally got the registry change to work through the command line. The old context menu is back, but the view menu in Home still has the view options as tiles or content only. This is something that has been complained about a lot in various discissions. There is no longer any option for icons of any size.

Ghot · Mar 23, 2024

Andacar said:
OK, I finally got the registry change to work through the command line. The old context menu is back, but the view menu in Home still has the view options as tiles or content only. This is something that has been complained about a lot in various discissions. There is no longer any option for icons of any size.

I used one of the other tutorials to remove Home... and Quick Access.

What do you see when you click... Show > ?

And what do you see when you right click, where it says... Right click here, in this pic?

Andacar · Mar 23, 2024

I can see large icons on MyComputer fine. This is what shows in Show> . It's been this way since the update to 23H2.

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