If Medium Icons (the default) is checked, your icons are 44?—44.
For Classic Icons, they??™re the standard 32?—32; for Large Icons, they??™re 86?—86.
So, if you??™re using classic icons, specify 40 in the Advanced Appearance window
to pack them pretty closely, or 50 to spread them apart. Next, change
the Icon Spacing (Vertical) value; use the same number for both the horizontal
and vertical measurements, and the result will look pretty good.
Quick Access to Control Panel
A lot of the clicking and scrounging in this book takes place in Control
Panel, a window that provides links to many settings that affect the way
Vista looks, sounds, and behaves. It??™s a hodge-podge of modern web-like pages
and older, pre-Vista tabbed dialog windows. Some of the dialog windows date
back more than a decade to Windows 95, and are still present merely because
Microsoft presumably doesn??™t want to invest the resources to update or replace
all their settings. (For examples, see the beginning of this chapter.)
As a result, it can be hard to find specific settings in Control Panel, and
time-consuming to repeatedly return to dialogs to change certain settings.
Fortunately, there are a few tricks that will help you find and change settings
faster.
First, open Control Panel, and click the Classic View link on the left to
show a complete list of all the top-level Control Panel pages and windows.
Next, click the little path arrow to the right of the Control Panel text in the
address bar, as shown in Figure 2-5.
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