| Problem | Likely Cause | Solution | |---------|--------------|----------| | Icons revert after reboot | Third-party cleaning tool | Disable auto-arrange or exclude desktop from cleaners. | | Icons become blurry | Forced non-integer scaling (Windows) | Use recommended scaling percentages (100%, 125%, 150%). | | Ctrl+Scroll does nothing | Desktop not focused | Click desktop background first, then Ctrl+scroll. | | Large icons overlapping | Grid spacing too tight | Increase grid spacing (Windows: right-click > View > Auto arrange, then adjust manually). | | Changes not saving (macOS) | .DS_Store corruption | Run find ~/Desktop -name ".DS_Store" -delete in Terminal. |
For enlarging all UI elements (including icons, text, taskbar):