Adjusting desktop icon spacing

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Hula Baloo

How does one adjust the spacing of icons on the desktop with Vista?
With XP you could right-click the desktop, click appearance, and adjust
this at will, but I can't find anything in the Personalization applet
(or any other applet for that matter) on how to do that. There're
plenty of things to change there, but I can't find the icon spacing
option. Is this another of Microsoft's user unfriendly changes in Vista?
 
Hula said:
How does one adjust the spacing of icons on the desktop with Vista?
With XP you could right-click the desktop, click appearance, and adjust
this at will, but I can't find anything in the Personalization applet
(or any other applet for that matter) on how to do that. There're
plenty of things to change there, but I can't find the icon spacing
option. Is this another of Microsoft's user unfriendly changes in Vista?
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No, it's there in basically the same place as it is in XP.

Control Panel>Personalize>Windows Color & Appearance>Classic
Appearance>Advanced Appearance.

This link has a picture (scroll down past the size bit and you'll find the
spacing picture):
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20287386-Vista-How-to-adjust-Desktop-Icon-Size

BTW, I found this by Googling "adjust icon spacing Vista" if you want any
other links.

Malke
 
How does one adjust the spacing of icons on the desktop with Vista?
With XP you could right-click the desktop, click appearance, and adjust
this at will, but I can't find anything in the Personalization applet
(or any other applet for that matter) on how to do that. There're
plenty of things to change there, but I can't find the icon spacing
option. Is this another of Microsoft's user unfriendly changes in Vista?
Click to expand...

I'm using Vista Home Premium:

Right click on the Desktop
Choose 'Personalize'
Choose 'Window Color and Appearance'
Choose 'Open classic appearance properties for more color options'
Click on 'Advanced...' button
From the 'Item:' dropdown box pick 'Icon Spacing (Horizontal)'
or 'Icon Spacing (Vertical)'

I do not know if it makes a difference, but I also use the
'Classic Start menu' for my Start Menu.
 
Malke said:
No, it's there in basically the same place as it is in XP.

Control Panel>Personalize>Windows Color & Appearance>Classic
Appearance>Advanced Appearance.

This link has a picture (scroll down past the size bit and you'll find the
spacing picture):
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20287386-Vista-How-to-adjust-Desktop-Icon-Size

BTW, I found this by Googling "adjust icon spacing Vista" if you want any
other links.

Malke
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Thanks Malke. I don't know how I missed it!
 
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