12th January 2000

There's a lot of white and wasted space in Windows 9x/NT4. Part of that has to do with the default icon spacing settings. One of the FIRST things I do after reinstalling Windows is set my icon spacing to a more appropriate level. Right-click on the Desktop, select Properties, click the Appearance tab, click on the Item drop-down list, look for Icon Spacing (Horizontal) and Icon Spacing (Vertical). NOTE: write down the original settings in case you want to reverse this later. I've (personally) found that setting both of these numbers to 32 works best. Be sure to refresh (or re-line up) your explorer windows, including the Desktop. It'll save some space.