Don't have view options in finder

I'm trying to change the icon size on my desktop. This should be easy via the view options. If finder would offer them.

I tried to get access to the options via the finder menu, cmd+j and I tried the right click on the desktop. But nothing worked. The menus just do not include a link to the view options.

Could anyone help? pit!

It can be confusing at times.

Set finder to open as icon.

Then in finder while viewing icons you will find a small slider at the bottom right of the finder window. It looks like this:

EDIT: To change icon size on Desktop:

Click on: Show View options

in Finder with desktop background (close all other windows)

You will get this,

allowing you to change the Desktop icons sizes.

Alternative method to use making sure the Desktop is the TOP window (in focus) use this method.

If none of above works for you, check the date of the "com.apple.finder.plist" in Library, and if not very recent than Delete it.

It looks like there's something wrong with your installation; you should probably just reinstall OS X. (I've never encountered something where a specific feature in the Finder is missing though...)

Do you have any Finder hacks installed? Anything that would affect menus?