Reduce space among desktop icons

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Davide

Hi all.
I've installed a desktop manager on my Windows XP pro SP2 and after
some days I've uninstalled it.
All the WIndows GUI returned in the initial state but the space among
desktop icons has not been returned normal. It's now too much and a lot
of space is lost on my desktop.
Is there a way or a registry key to correct manually the space among
icons? I've looked in the dekstop properties but I didn't find it.

Thank you
Best regards
Davide
 
I've found a solution into book:
Fixing Windows XP Annoyances
By David A. Karp
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Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: March 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-596-10053-1
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-59-610053-7
Pages: 239


[...]
Right-click an empty area of the desktop, choose Properties, click the
Appearance tab, and then click the Advanced button. From the Item
drop-down menu, choose Icon Spacing (Horizontal), and adjust the
spacingthe number of pixels between the edges of adjacent iconsby
changing the Size value. A good value is approximately 1.3 to 1.5 times
the width of an icon (typically 32 pixels); specify 40 to pack them
pretty closely, or 50 to spread them apart. You can likewise change the
Icon Spacing (Vertical) value; use the same number for both the
horizontal and vertical measurements, and the result will look
balanced.
[...]

unfortunately, this solution doesn't work :-(
 
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