unfortunately not, I tried that, it's funny, Microsoft always tries to remove original functions as they keep "updating" their os..
the slider present in win7 & previous os's allowed me to change icon sizes, with the selections windows 8 offer actually & you're
showing me, I have a fixed icon size. the slider offers progressive or regressive personalized icon sizes which is helpful on different
machines/screen sizes & helps when a specific size prevents the display of some icons that don't contain different sizes .. .