{"id":423,"date":"2021-09-20T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/?p=423"},"modified":"2021-09-14T09:39:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T09:39:11","slug":"how-can-i-change-the-spacing-of-the-desktop-icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/how-can-i-change-the-spacing-of-the-desktop-icons\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I change the spacing of the Desktop icons?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are the icons on the table too far apart? No problem: a registry intervention helps, making them look more compact. To do this, open the Setup Editor, for example by pressing Windows+R to open Run, typing regedit, hitting enter, and answering yes to the question about controlling user accounts. Then locate the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Desktop\\WindowMetrics. The IconSpacing and IconVerticalSpacing entries are responsible for the spacing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The default value for the horizontal spacing (IconSpacing) is -1710 or -1725 &#8211; depending on the Windows 10 build you are using. To make the icons closer together, enter a smaller value. The minimum is -460, but above that, the text and icons overlap. We have good experience with values starting at -1100, which remain legible on today&#8217;s modern high-resolution displays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to the vertical spacing, horizontal spacing can also be magnified: the maximum value is -2730. The vertical spacing of icons is given by IconVerticalSpacing, which is also subject to the rules described above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are the icons on the table too far apart? No problem: a registry intervention helps, making them look more compact. To do this, open the Setup Editor, for example by pressing Windows+R to open Run, typing regedit, hitting enter, and answering yes to the question about controlling user accounts. Then locate the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Desktop\\WindowMetrics. &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"How can I change the spacing of the Desktop icons?\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/how-can-i-change-the-spacing-of-the-desktop-icons\/#more-423\" aria-label=\"Read more about How can I change the spacing of the Desktop icons?\">Read more \u2771<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,186],"tags":[353,140],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-and-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-icons","tag-windows-10","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutemailbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}