First answer: right click an empty part of the desktop, choose Properties and click the Appearance tab. Select advanced, choose "Icon" from the list and change the font.
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Originally posted by _indent
how come when you change the size of the minimize/restore down/close buttons it changes the size of the systray and quicklaunch icons too??
Those are 'connected' to one another; Windows treats them like being the same.
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