I an in the middle an update from XP to Win-7. Everything is going fine so far, but I don't like the way the desktop icons are shown. Under XP you could go to an "advanced" set of options and adjust the appearance of just about anything.
When I did a similar upgrade on a laptop a couple of years ago, I discovered that the same set of adjustments are available in Win-7, but as far as I can tell, you have to fall back to a "basic" non-aero theme to get to them.
My particular concern is that I'd like to rescale the desktop icons to about half of their default size, and reduce the spacing between them. Mostly so I can fit everything I want on the desktop into two columns.
Is there some hidden way to accomplish this? I've found that the theme file is in plain ascii text, and I'm wondering if I can find the appropriate variables and set them by brute force? Or is there some way to get to the appearance adjustment settings without giving up the aero features?
When I did a similar upgrade on a laptop a couple of years ago, I discovered that the same set of adjustments are available in Win-7, but as far as I can tell, you have to fall back to a "basic" non-aero theme to get to them.
My particular concern is that I'd like to rescale the desktop icons to about half of their default size, and reduce the spacing between them. Mostly so I can fit everything I want on the desktop into two columns.
Is there some hidden way to accomplish this? I've found that the theme file is in plain ascii text, and I'm wondering if I can find the appropriate variables and set them by brute force? Or is there some way to get to the appearance adjustment settings without giving up the aero features?