Medium file icon spacing inside file explorer

Passenger Chi said:

What is the registry entry or is there a reg file I can use?

Thank you.

I'm on Windows 11 at the moment so I can't check.
Do you have this option, yet?







If you don't have this in your registry, you can try adding it.
Export the "Advanced" key first.

If it's not there, right click on the right side and choose:
New > DWORD (32 bit), and name it UseCompactMode and set it to "1"



Then you may have to restart Explorer or even reboot to apply the changes.

For the desktop, yes. For file explorer, not seen anything that I can remember. There may be... somewhere.. try Ghot's idea in response to yout initial question. But now you want increased spacing...

Passenger Chi said:

I see no such option

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The number of pixels is stored somewhere, I'm guessing the registry.

Any registry mavens can help?

I just checked (on Win 10), that registry tweak I listed... apparently it doesn't work on Win 10.

According to this article this feature is being back-ported from Win 11 into Win 10 in due course..
How to Enable or Disable Compact View in File Explorer in Windows 10 & 11 - MajorGeeks

An example of how mine looks:


- and CTRL + scroll can be used to alter this.

What is the problem with the how yours looks? Please post an example. Thanks.

Does anything here prompt thought?
How to reduce large icon spacing in file browser for Windows 10? - Super User

I am aware of Desktop icon spacing:
Change Desktop icon spacing in Windows 10 and Windows 8 / 8.1




Don't know about spacing in File Explorer though.
Would be nice if there was a simple option to be able to customize the looks of Windows 10