{"id":14510,"date":"2019-06-13T08:51:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T08:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=14510"},"modified":"2019-06-13T08:54:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T08:54:31","slug":"change-desktop-icon-spacing-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/change-desktop-icon-spacing-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change Desktop Icon Spacing in Windows 10 \/ 8 \/ 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Windows 10 desktop icons too wide? How can I adjust the spacing of icons on the desktop with Windows 10? Is there a way to increase or decrease the horizontal and vertical spacing for desktop icons? In this tutorial we’ll show you a registry tweak to change desktop icon spacing in Windows 10 \/ 8 \/ 7.<\/p>\n

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Tips:<\/strong> If you want to make your desktop icons bigger or smaller, see this article on how to change taskbar & desktop icon size in Windows 10 \/ 8 \/ 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How to Change Desktop Icon Spacing in Windows 10 \/ 8 \/ 7<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Open Registry Editor<\/a> and navigate to the following key:
    \nHKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Control Panel\\Desktop\\WindowMetrics<\/code><\/p>\n

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    \tYou’ll see two DWORD values named IconSpacing<\/strong> and IconVerticalSpacing<\/strong> on the right pane. The IconSpacing<\/em> value lets you adjust the horizontal desktop icon spacing, while the IconVerticalSpacing<\/em> value can control the vertical spacing between desktop icons. If you want to customize the horizontal spacing, double-click on IconSpacing<\/strong> to modify it.<\/li>\n

  2. The default value is -1125. You can change it to anything between -480 and -2730, where -480 represents the minimum spacing and -2730 represents the maximum spacing.\n

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  3. Click OK<\/strong> to save changes and close Registry Editor. After logging off or restarting your system, you can see the changes made to the icons on the desktop.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Windows 10 desktop icons too wide? How can I adjust the spacing of icons on the desktop with Windows 10? Is there a way to increase or decrease the horizontal and vertical spacing for desktop icons? In this tutorial we’ll show you a registry tweak to change desktop icon spacing in Windows 10 \/ 8 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[4243,4244],"class_list":["post-14510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-change-desktop-icon-spacing-windows-10","tag-windows-10-desktop-icons-too-wide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14510"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14518,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14510\/revisions\/14518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}