Change Windows XP and Vista Desktop Icons into Smaller List View

Even wonder how you can reduce the icons’ size on desktop in Windows XP and Vista OS (Operating System)? I don’t mean to change the desktop resolution but this is another simple yet good way of reducing the size of icons without significantly change the font of all the display characters. Known as Deskview, this tiny utility tool will able to accomplish the task with simple setup.
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This is quite useful especially when you have a lot of icons scattered around your desktop. Of course the best solution is to try to categorize and group them in proper folder and just left those frequently access files on the desktop. But if you think your desktop space is still insufficient after clearing most of them, then this could be the right solution for you.

What you need to do is just download deskview.zip, extract and then double click on the deskview.exe executable file. Immediate after that, your icons display will switch from normal mode to small icon. Just repeat the same step, double click on it to switch the icons back to normal mode. Alternatively, you can put the executable file under C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup folder in order to execute it automatically when you startup your computer. This utility tool also work for Windows Vista. However, the scaling down percentage is less obvious as compared to what you can do in Windows XP as shown on the picture above.


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10 Responses to “Change Windows XP and Vista Desktop Icons into Smaller List View”

  1. Hunnenkoenig
    July 5th, 2009 09:19
    10

    Or just use CTRL+mouse wheel to change size seemlessly :-P

  2. sudhir
    June 28th, 2009 17:26
    9

    well i m talking about xp stop giving me examples for vista

  3. loser
    March 21st, 2009 00:38
    8

    Jim, That was totally unprofessional.

  4. jcard21
    November 6th, 2008 09:33
    7

    No extra software required…

    1) Just add the “Desktop” Toolbar to the Taskbar,

    2) Then turn off all desktop icons.

    You end up with your beautiful desktop background photo uncluttered, and a nice list of desktop icons out of the way in the Taskbar.

    Sweet!

  5. jaytwou2
    March 30th, 2008 01:50
    6

    you can just right click desktop then click view and select classic icons and deselect auto grid so that way you can align them closer

  6. Col. Lingus
    March 25th, 2008 03:30
    5

    D-Color XP does this and so much more.

  7. admin
    January 10th, 2008 08:41
    4

    Jim, sorry about this.

  8. DADA
    January 10th, 2008 06:31
    3

    a other small desktop icon tool:
    (found at the Darmon site too)

    http://www.darmon.homeip.net/software/sdit/index.html
    (Freeware)

  9. DADA
    January 10th, 2008 06:27
    2

    With this tool you can save and restore your Desktop Icons position.

    http://www.darmon.homeip.net/software/SaveDesktopIcon/index.html

    the page is in German but the software is in english.

    Fine tiny tool

  10. Jim Cofer
    January 10th, 2008 06:25
    1

    Stop stealing my content, jerk!

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