Windows Icon Size Pixels. This is a very large icon set designed for windows 10 mobile designers. Pick one of the three sizes and the desktop icon size will change.
Here is a 72 point font rendered at 144 dpi using gdi. Choosing the right icon size for various operating systems is important, but it may also cause headaches, depression, and other unpleasant side effects. Screen resolution refers to the clarity of the text and images shown on the screen.
Microsoft only recommended icon sizes up to 48×48 pixels for windows xp.
If you want to cover every possible resolution, include icons sizes 16, 17, 18,., 255, 256. Start menu or start screen won’t close after clicking a tile of windows 7 games. They are all 256x256 pixels, so they are plenty big enough (they show as a 1 square on the actual folder when i use large icons in view). The image is crisp, and the details still present.