Why are the icons HUGE by default?

Hey Everyone,
I got Snow Leopard yesterday and did a clean install (reformatted the HD before installing). My only issues is that the icons are HUGE by default - just like in Windows Vista and 7 (at least there's a very easy way to change that). What is the default icon and spacing size for Leopard Desktop/Finder? I can't stand the humungous sizes and can't seem to find the right size with the little slider in all the Finder windows.
Thanks in advance,
-MRCUR

Once upon a time icons were 32x32. They started moving on up in size, for the last several years they were 128x128, and in Leopard many of the system default icons were 512x512, although the Finder didn't actually take any advantage of this. I figured Apple was "in transition" and was moving to that larger size as the new default. Sure enough, in Snow Leopard that is the new normal.
For your purposes you can set whatever you want as the default size, and in folders where you have things you want to display larger icons you can customize the settings for that folder only.
Francine
Francine
Schwieder

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