How to Change Desktop Icon Spacing in Windows 10/8/7

This article is about how to Change Desktop Icon Spacing in Windows 10/8/7. Have you noticed the space of your Windows desktop icon? Of course, the desktop icon space is not fixed, but can be changed according to your preferences or needs.

How to Change Desktop Icon Spacing in Windows 10/8/7

• Part 1: How to change Desktop Icon spacing in Windows 10/8
• Part 2: How to change Desktop Icon spacing in Windows 7

Part 1: How to change Desktop Icon spacing in Windows 10

Step 1: Open the Run dialog box by using Win + R key on your keyboard, type regedit in the box and click OK.

This will open the Registry Editor.

Step 2: In the left pane of the Registry Editor, go to the following keys:

ComputerHKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktopWindowMetrics. Then you will see two DWORDS values ​​named IconSpacing and IconVerticalSpacing in the right pane, which control the vertical spacing and vertical spacing of the desktop icons respectively.

Double-click the value to edit its data.

You can change the data value between -480 and -2730.

Step 4: Restart Windows 10 or just log out and back in for the change to take effect.

Part 2: How to change Desktop Icon spacing in Windows 7

In Windows 7, you can only do this from the Control Panel.

1. Open the Control Panel, and click Appearance > Display > Change Color Scheme. Click Change color scheme

2. When the “Window Color and Appearance” window opens, click the Advanced button. Click Up

When the following window opens, click the drop down button, so you will see two items called Icon Spacing (Horizontal) and Icon Spacing (Vertical) in the list

Change the size of these two icon spaces individually, according to your own needs. Then click OK and apply.

These changes will take effect immediately without restarting your Windows 7.