We're in the process of trying to change the desktops icons on all our client machines to the "Classic View" size. Microsoft says there's no way to do this on Server 2008 R2 using GPO/GPP. We're hoping if we can find the right registry key, we'll be able to push that change out to the thin clients in the field when they log in. Otherwise we have to make the changes to the profiles and recreate them manually, which is not a happy thought. Is there a registry key we're missing somewhere or have we just overlooked a better solution?
We've played around with the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics key, but the changes don't seem to do anything. The grid for the icons changes a little bit, but the icons themselves stay the same.
Seems like no one knows the answer to this question, so I'm hoping you fine folks might be able to help. Any input is welcome. Thanks in advance.
Best Answer
You can't do that since DPI is a user based setting. Even if you were to find the magic set of keys, it's not persistent and depends on the display device. In a nutshell don't do this even if you find the magic keys. I suspect that trying to change this could cause display driver crashes as they are expecting certain ranges of numbers (and I think it should reset as soon as it detects that the display device doesn't match the numbers you've set).
Perhaps a better thing is to ask is what are you trying to accomplish by changing the size of the icons?