- desktop icon position
- Posted by cy on October 6th, 2005
i have just completed a system recovery and ever since my desktop icons are
quite far apart, before i could move them close to each other but now i cant
move them anywhere near each other, i know its a bit of a daft question but
its starting to annoy me. Any ideas? any help would be great! Thanks in
advance!
Colin
- Posted by Hugh on October 6th, 2005
Right-click the desktop. Under "Arrange icons by" De-select "Auto arrange".
"cy" wrote:
> i have just completed a system recovery and ever since my desktop icons are
> quite far apart, before i could move them close to each other but now i cant
> move them anywhere near each other, i know its a bit of a daft question but
> its starting to annoy me. Any ideas? any help would be great! Thanks in
> advance!
>
> Colin
- Posted by Tim Slattery on October 6th, 2005
"cy" <cy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>i have just completed a system recovery and ever since my desktop icons are
>quite far apart, before i could move them close to each other but now i cant
>move them anywhere near each other, i know its a bit of a daft question but
>its starting to annoy me. Any ideas? any help would be great! Thanks in
>advance!
In addition to the "auto-arrange" setting that Hugh mentioned:
right-click the desktop, choose "Properties". Click the "Appearance"
tab. Click the "Advanced" button. Now drop-down the "Item:" list and
check out the "Icon Spacing (Horizontal)" and "Icon Spacing(Vertical)"
settings.
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Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
Slattery_T@bls.gov
