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crtl zoom desktop icon resize driving me insane, please help disable??
I have searched all the internets without luck, and maybe/probably don't know the correct vernacular so here goes.
In windows 7, when viewing the desktop... or when the mouse focus is off window (on desktop)... a "neat" feature of windows now is how you can resize all the icons with a crtl+wheel motion. Just click to the desktop, or have the focus there already, and viola, the crtl button plus a wheel move makes system wide changes to your desktop icon display.
Well I am not sure what version this new trick was invented in, but it is a cool trick... ONCE. After that its a really stupid annoyance that is just insanity because today, in real life, every other time I sit down my icons are moved around, or all jacked up, or they are out of place, or just out of order, or there are gaps, or some or all of the above... what kind of useful feature is that? Have you thought of a lock for this gadget at all? As in allow the customization, then tuck it away so its not a flaming hotkey 24/7?
Sure, the cause of this awesome trick of resizing the desktop with the scroll wheel, is my wife and kids. How did they PwN me with such 1337 h4x when they know nothing about root trickery and such... well easy, see just by using the PC on occasion, they have accidently cracked the code by accidently discovering this hack. Oh it took a while for me to solve that much sure, but once I did, it wasn't long before I discovered that this total PITA trick is actually a built in feature here to help me. Well stop helping me because someone who doesn't understand what crtl+wheel really does now has root access to repeatedly eff up my desktop.
Well enough.
I have looked for ways to lock the icons, or disable this trick but I can't find it. It seems beyond logic that a kid could completely hammer my desktop simply by resting his hand on the crtl key while rolling the wheel, but sure as the sun shines, not only has he done it several times, so has the other kid, and so has the wife, and honestly even I did it on accident the first time... that's how I discovered this stupid... umm... this amazing new hack... well sorry Microsoft, once is a win, but afterwords this is a fail.. a really big stupid one.
So please, lets pick a flipping size desktop icons and leave it the @#$%^ alone. Put a toggle on it, make it one click away, anything... anything to keep my look static. As I said its a cool trick, but once its set it needs to stay set. Having unknowing users (kids) and technically challenged (wife) users able to wield such advance h4x treachery while I am AFK is retarded.
Of course so is needing 2Gb of ram to simply boot an O/S, but I digress... can anyone help this?