Icons lost their resolution - looks blocky

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I've googled this and can't find a resolution. I've been installing some
games on my computer and testing them and at one point I noticed that all
the icons in my taskbar had their resolution lowered. They are no longer
smooth. They are very blocky like when a small picture is magnified too big.
In fact, I just noticed on my SQL Server Entrprise menu that the icons in
the menu are like that too. I googled this and everything similar just says
to make the icons smaller. They are already on their smallest setting so it
isn't this. I did the right-click on the taskbar and also went to advanced
options for the monitor settings. But everything is as it should be (Small
Icons). Plus, they are the same size they were beforehand so it's not a size
problem. It's like trying to show a low resolution picture in a high
resolution program and it looks funky. Is there a registry setting or
something that changes the resolution of icons?

Thanks!