Re: Desktop Icon Arrangement

From: lvee (notmesothere_at_msn.com)
Date: 07/31/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 21:48:52 -0500

How many icons are there on your desktop?
The way it looks to me, and I suppose it makes a bit of a difference
depending on the size of the icons, but I have 12 icons, 9 in a column on
the left side, three in the next column. Mine, also, are not in Alphabetical
order in the first column, but they are in the second, thanks, now the OCD
in me is going to sweat over that one for a few days:)
Anyway, if you have way more icons than I do, they, of course, are going to
divide into more columns, but, you can change their location, as well as
other modifications. Just go to the taskbar, right click>properties>Start
Menu>customize>small icons. You can also change your screen resolution to
1280 x 1024 which will make everything much smaller. If those don't work,
and it still bugs you , you could run the desktop cleanup wizard.

"John Williams" <john@nospamplease.com> wrote in message
news:GuyOc.2985$Jp6.1524@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> When I right click on my desktop and select Arrange Icons by Name, I get a
> continuous list with three sections.
>
> The first section consists of "My Documents", "My Computer", etc. not in
> alphabetic order.
>
> The second and third sections are two lists of shortcuts both in
> alphabetical order.
>
> The first section is fine as it is although I'd like to know how items get
> into that section.
>
> My real question is how do I merge sections 2 and 3?
>
> John
>
>

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