Windows 7 Small Desktop Icons

gavin19

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• Oct 16, 2009

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Left-click in an empty portion of the desktop and hold in 'CTRL' and then scroll down on the mouse wheel to reduce icon size to your preferred size.

Hope that helped

 

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SyK

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• Oct 16, 2009

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omg, i was looking for it too, forgot its like anything like Word, IE, ...

Thnks Gavin

But isn't there a place like in XP where you could also adjust the space between icons?

 

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gavin19

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SyK said:

omg, i was looking for it too, forgot its like anything like Word, IE, ...

Thnks Gavin

But isn't there a place like in XP where you could also adjust the space between icons?

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Yes, but a lot of these minor display configuration options seem to have been removed from W7 unfortunately. I don't know if this is even possible any longer

 

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reghakr

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• Oct 16, 2009

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To make this much more easier, right-click on the desktop and choose personalize, now click windows color and choose icon spacing under the drop-down menu



Backup the following registry key before attempting this:

Icon spacing is available in Windows properties or through the registry.

Open regedit and navigate to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics]

In the right pane there is an entry named IconSpacing. The default is 1125.

To space them further apart, set the value to 925 which will place them closer together and the size will not be as large.

Change the IconVerticalSpacing to 925 as well.

 

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gwb

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That worked well. Icons still a bit plump but much better now.

Thanks,
Art

 

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reghakr

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You can also change the icon size if you like:

Go to the same place mentioned at the top of the other post and choose Icon from the drop-down menu and you can select a custom size here.

 

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Blackfryar

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• Oct 26, 2009

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gavin19 said:

Left-click in an empty portion of the desktop and hold in 'CTRL' and then scroll down on the mouse wheel to reduce icon size to your preferred size.

Hope that helped

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Thanks man that's so cool!

 

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iroken22

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• Oct 27, 2009

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gosh reghcker always gotta be hacking the registry dont ya. HAHA!!!

 

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reghakr

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Hi Iroken22,

Welcome back!!!!!!!!!1

Yes, you know I love to play with the registry, but I did find an easier way

 

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Blackfryar

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• Oct 30, 2009

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Removing text form desktop icons

Hi, Just a thought, but how do you get rid of the text descriptions that hang below each desktop icon?

 

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• Oct 30, 2009

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It is possible to do it without resorting to messing with the registry.
Right click the desktop and personalize.
Click Windows Classic
Click Windows colour
There is you familiar items. You can scroll down and alter icon spacing and quite a few other things. I found a horizontal spacing of 60 accomodated my text nicely.

Later.
I should have added that after this you can return to your original background,and the new customisation will remain.

 

Last edited: Oct 31, 2009

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