My Desktop

Pnokio · Aug 4, 2024

I save everything to my Desktop, this is how it looks before I save anything.
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bobkn · Aug 4, 2024

Do you have a question?

Pnokio · Aug 4, 2024

If I save my first item, it gets saved here.
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Pnokio · Aug 4, 2024

If I remove the Recycle Bin, the first item saved goes where the Bin was. All subsequent items saved are placed neatly below the previous one right to the bottom of the Desktop.
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What I would like to know is, why the space below the bin when I save the first item. Can you help?

Brink · Aug 4, 2024

Items are saved into a grid pattern aligned in order from top left column and down until full, then moves to the next column to the right.

Turn On or Off Align Icons to Grid on Desktop in Windows 11 Tutorial

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Turn On or Off Auto Arrange Icons on Desktop in Windows 11 Tutorial

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Spunk · Aug 4, 2024

Right click the Desktop and choose View Here you can uncheck or recheck depending on what you want to do,
Auto Arrange Icons, Auto Arrange Icons to Grid
You can move the icons anywhere on the desktop if unchecked

Pnokio · Aug 4, 2024

Hi Shaun, have you any idea why the space below the Bin and the first item saved

Brink · Aug 4, 2024

Pnokio said:
Hi Shaun, have you any idea why the space below the Bin and the first item saved

Could be a spacing issue. Are you able to manually move the icon up one level just beneath the Recycle Bin?

Pnokio · Aug 4, 2024

Spunk said:
Right click the Desktop and choose View Here you can uncheck or recheck depending on what you want to do,
Auto Arrange Icons, Auto Arrange Icons to Grid
You can move the icons anywhere on the desktop if unchecked

This is my Asus 2 laptop's desktop setting. My Asus 1 laptop (different model) setting is the same and it never leaves a space when saving any item.

Pnokio · Aug 4, 2024

Brink said:
Could be a spacing issue. Are you able to manually move the icon up one level just beneath the Recycle Bin?

Yes. If the left hand row is full except the space below the bin, the next item saved fills the space below the bin.
If I save another item when lefthand column is full it displaces the Firefox icon one space down and takes it's place.

antspants · Aug 4, 2024

Do you have any software installed that you have used to adjust/tweak Windows?

Pnokio · Aug 4, 2024

antspants said:
Do you have any software installed that you have used to adjust/tweak Windows?

I have clicked Settings > Accessibility > Test Size set it at 125%
FF set at default.
I also have used this on both laptops
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antspants · Aug 4, 2024

Be careful in regedit.

Open search on your taskbar and type Regedit, open it.
Click on this to copy it to your clipboard --> Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics

Paste it in the following space (1) and press enter.
What does it say in position (2) IconVerticalSpacing? Is it -1125 or something else?

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antspants · Aug 4, 2024

if it isn’t:

Double click on IconVerticalSpacing and in "Value data" change it to -1125 (Apparently though, the default is -1128 although I don’t recall changing mine)

Click OK

There is also a tutorial for icon spacing here, by @Brink

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Pnokio · Aug 4, 2024

antspants said:
Be careful in regedit.

Open search on your taskbar and type Regedit, open it.
Click on this to copy it to your clipboard --> Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics

Paste it in the following space (1) and press enter.
What does it say in position (2) IconVerticalSpacing? Is it -1125 or something else?

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While you have been busy posting your cleverly crafted reply to my ????? I have also been ~~dizzy~~ busy looking for other ways to attempt a cure or another method to repeat the current problem. Then I remembered I could hold down Ctrl key and spin the mouse wheel to change the font/icon size.
I am almost 73 and had been playing with everything to get things to a size I could read. I will post more on this if I can find it.
Needless to say, playing with the mouse wheeo & Ctrl fixed it. Thanks to all.

antspants · Aug 4, 2024

Pnokio said:
While you have been busy posting your cleverly crafted reply to my ????? I have also been ~~dizzy~~ busy looking for other ways to attempt a cure or another method to repeat the current problem. Then I remembered I could hold down Ctrl key and spin the mouse wheel to change the font/icon size.
I am almost 73 and had been playing with everything to get things to a size I could read. I will post more on this if I can find it.
Needless to say, playing with the mouse wheeo & Ctrl fixed it. Thanks to all.

We do these things without knowing. Ctrl + Scroll wheel is an easy thing to do accidentally.
I’m glad you found your fix!

Pnokio · Aug 4, 2024

antspants said:
We do these things without knowing. Ctrl + Scroll wheel is an easy thing to do accidentally.
I’m glad you found your fix!

This is what I have tried, and to some extent, still trying to do with limited success.
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I have 2 Asus laptops (different models) and have had trouble like you have.
I thought at first it was an automatic setting that changed at night then again at daylight.
At that time I had Malwarebytes Premium for free as a Royal Band of Scotland customer.
Their offer ended and my new AV program became Bitdefender, excellent program.
As mentioned by another menber, I also went to Settings > Accessibility > Text Size and set it at Size 130
I also have as my image a portable program, this version works perfectly compared with it's laters version.

antspants · Aug 4, 2024

Pnokio said:
I have 2 Asus laptops (different models) and have had trouble like you have.
I thought at first it was an automatic setting that changed at night then again at daylight.
At that time I had Malwarebytes Premium for free as a Royal Band of Scotland customer.
Their offer ended and my new AV program became Bitdefender, excellent program.
As mentioned by another menber, I also went to Settings > Accessibility > Text Size and set it at Size 130
I also have as my image a portable program, this version works perfectly compared with it's laters version.

?? Is this from another thread of yours?

antspants · Aug 4, 2024

I see, from here:

How to change default sizes of icons, images, etc.

Hi all, first post here. I go back to Windows 3.1 and know a few things, but not an expert. This is the second machine I've had with W11. I'm old and getting tired of fighting with these things constantly. I have a new ASUS laptop and have a problem with viewed sizes. I've had this problem...

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I have no extra input less what I posted in that thread.