Windows Tip: Change Icon Spacing

Spread out your desktop icons or gather them closer together with this tip.

By Nicole Guilfoyle
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Are your desktop icons so close together you can't separate one from another? Maybe you think they're too far away from each other. Luckily it's easy to change the amount of space between icons. Today Chris walks you through the steps.

Right-click an empty part of your desktop.
Choose Properties and open the Appearance tab.
Find Icon spacing (horizontal) and Icon spacing (vertical) in the Item pull-down menu.
Reset the size value to add more or less space between icons. Click Apply and OK.

Hit the F5 key to refresh your desktop and see the new icon spacing.

Posted January 18, 2003
Modified January 13, 2003

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