Jamie, thanks a lot-that was exactly what I was looking for! Go Collective!
;)
BINO
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jamie Furtner
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 3:30 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] Umm, testing?
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: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Tomporowski
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 2:19 PM
> To: [email protected]
> 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!!
>>
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>> BINO
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