Change XP Desktop Icons Into Smaller List View
Has it ever bothered you that you can't change the size of the icons on your XP desktop? Thankfully they added this ability into Windows Vista, but what are your options in the meantime?
There's a small utility called Deskview that lets you change the icons from regular mode into the smaller "list" mode with a double-click. It's as simple as that.
Download and extract the zipfile, and then double-click on deskview.exe, and your icons will turn from this:
Into this:
To bring them back to regular mode, just double-click on deskview.exe again.
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I love Pitaschio http://pitaschio.ara3.net/. Similar "double-click, and run" behavior (so load it into your Startup Items), but is also has a bunch of other cool little explorer features.
Ouch just went to the deskview website, and it doesn't remember the location of the icons?!? Pitaschio http://pitaschio.ara3.net/ remembers.
Tony,
You are correct… I should have mentioned that fact.
Thanks for this tip. One can also follow this article to enable "View" menu on desktop:
It is tricky to find, but I know of a way to change icon sizes in XP. If you go into properties, select the appearance tab, and click the "advanced" button. From there you need to select icons from the top drop down menu (the same menu has icon spacing as well).
Or we can hide all the icons and use "Launchy" to take care of all of them.