You can do it still - Right click on the desktop - Personalize - Window
Colour - Advanced appearance settings. Same dialog in Vista / XP / 2000,
just hidden away a bit.
Jamie
On 2010-03-11 4:14 PM, Bino Gopal wrote:
Speaking of Win7 (glad the list isn't dead btw!), anyone know how you can
make the icon size and spacing smaller on your desktop like you could in
WinXP?
I just installed Win7 Ent on an IBM T61 and I already right-clicked on the
desktop, selected View, Small Icons and they're still way too big, and the
spacing b/w them is huge...I also made the taskbar icons smaller too, but
that's not what I ultimately want.
So in WinXP you could right-click on the Desktop, select the Appearance tab,
Advanced, and then select Icon and Icon Spacing (Horizontal or Vertical)
from the drop-down menu, and make the icons smaller and drastically reduce
the space b/w them, which was very nice. On my 1400x1050 15" laptop screen,
I currently have 17 icons vertical and 24 across (and most of the spaces
taken up with icons-usually favorites but sometimes docs, etc).
Is there anything like that for Win7 as googling it just got the WinXP
instructions, which AFAIK don't apply to Win7...
BINO
-----Original Message-----
From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com
[mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Steve Tomporowski
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 2:19 PM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Umm, testing?
Not a lot of activity recently (on the list). I suppose I can do one
inquiry here. I am running Win7 x64 and one of the pending (I've kept
it pending) updates is KB971033, which is a patch that, for my
protection, will search my computer to find out if there are any
cracks/patches/loaders for Win7 that indicate that I have a pirate copy
of windows. Know Microsoft's track record on this, I hesitate to
install it, just waiting for all the false positives top pop out.
What's the word on how this patch is doing?
Steve
On 3/11/2010 4:25 PM, Bino Gopal wrote:
Just checking if the list is still alive since there hasn't been *any* (or
at least I haven't gotten any) email since SteveT's email on Tues at
4:39pm
on the wireless printer stuff.and this time I wasn't unsubscribed from the
list; checked that first!!
BINO
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