LightRoom 2: Enlarge thumbnail size in filmstrip?

I'm running on a 30" monitor which is really great for workflow efficiency. BUT... the thumbnail images in the filmstrip are just too small and I'd like to be able to enlarge the thumbnail size.
In Grid View, its easy to do this for grid view but does not help with the filmstrip view.
Lee

I'm using LR5, but I've been using Lightroom since LR2.  Earlier today, I suddenly found that the images in the filmstrip had shrunk and I couldn't figure out why.  I tried right-clicking on everything and looked through a bunch of preferences and view options without success.  I finally decided to enlist the help of Google.  This is the first search result that I checked and the answer was right there!  Dragging the top of the film strip has never occured to me, but now it seems so obvious!  This is my fourth version of Lightroom and I never realized I could do that!

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