Fix extremely large Desktop Icon spacing 

This happened when upgraded an hour ago from Win10 to Win11. Your guide was the clearest, simplest, and worked instantly.

holy smokes, I can finally see my desktop icons again! Thank you so much for this video! I changed my display scaling and for some reason it adjusted my icon spacing. Following your steps, my icon space and vertical icon spacing was at -576000! No wonder all my icons disappeared. I changed it to the default value, -1125, and now I can finally see my desktop icons again! Thank you!! This video is valuable

So thankful for your resolution and easy to follow directions. This solved my problem when none of the other "fixes" would. Not sure what prompted the issue, but you can bet your buns I'm keeping it handy for others! Well done, TroubleChute. :)

Thanks! This happens when you go to ease of access centre -> set bigger text. There is a slider, the first time you slide, the font becomes bigger,. then you typically close the menu. But when you access this menu again and move the slider to make the font size even bigger, then the icons horizontal spacing goes nuts. I wanted to reinstall the system to get things back under control, thanks for the vid it helped.

This helped me heaps! My icons stayed large after I adjusted the text size in display setting, they would stay the same and not revert after I changed the text small again!!!! Thanks mate

This happened after I connected my computer to a TV and changed the resolution for better viewing on the TV. I tried reading different Q & A forums but your video was the easiest. Thanks.

I love you man, you just helped me big time! Don't know how it happened, but it's fixed now, THANK YOU!

Icons are social distancing! 😁

Thank you very much. I just updated my laptop after not using it for about a year, and after the update, this happened. I looked everywhere for a solution, but nothing, then I found this fantastic video of yours, many thanks. Keep up the great work.

Saw your description, mine was at least 70 the maximum for some reason, I thought my Icons disappeared. But this worked, thank you!

I downloaded a cracked version of gta iv, and after going through the installment steps this bug appeared, as soon as i saw it, I stopped the installment of the game and deleted the setup and the extracted files, I tried several solutions I found on the windows official help page but nothing worked, thankfully your method worked :D continue making these videos, you're helping so much!

I also had to change the vertical spacing using the same "-1125" and that worked as well. Thanks again.

Thanks much . I felt very frustated on seeing the icon size , no idea how that setting changed . Followed the steps , now screen looks good😁

omg i struggled for A YEAR!!!! and i didn't even realize that it was the spacing. mine was changed to -18,000 and I could only see 1 icon per screen so I thought they're just gone. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

It happened to me today and I was confused as to why it happened, though your solution is 4 years old, its still the most useful

Thank you so much, just like you said it happened absolutely out of the blue, I looked for a solution for hours, I was about to go crazy until I saw this. Worked like a charm. Cheers.

That worked thank you!! I have another issue though. The icons won’t move to the bottom of the screen. It’s like there’s an invisible block that only lets me use either the top or middle of the screen for icons. So now they’re sitting two by two when I’d like them all in a straight vertical row.

Dude you are a GOD! If I could glue your video to Google's homepage, I would

Is there an equivalent for making the spaces less between the icons on the taskbar once you've made them smaller through Regedit? Windows 11.

Thank you so much for this tutorial. It fixed my Windows 11 bug which made my width super wide!!!

Thank you man when none were able to solve then your video solved issue in less than 10 min... Thank you man thank you very much

OMG! Thank You thank you thank you . I’ve no idea what’s going on on my screen as I saw an icon on my entire display . I’ve been in trouble for 1 week . Thank you you r my lifesaver

Thank you!!! It's been driving me bonkers trying to fix this.

Omg!!! This VID was the best and quickest way to resolve thank U 🙏 honestly this was the GOAT guide for me today!!!!

Thank you very much for the help! It bothered me for a long time and have no clue what made it happened.

THANK YOU for this. It was driving me nuts, mine were even wider and stacked on top of each other. All the fixes online mentioned the control panel, and I'm looking through windows 10 -- there isn't one. Thank you thank you thank you

Brilliant video. I Appreciate your precocious Time and Efforts to put this up. Thanks again

Thank you so much ! I was completely irritated with this problem- you solved it in a seconds :)

Thanks man! Can confirm that this works on Windows 11 as well. Glad I came across your videos. Kudos for a simple and easy-to-follow video.

Thank you this legitimately helped me. Although my icons weren't that wide, they were just noticeably wide

Thanks. It helped me to fix it, I changed the horizontal and vertical value to equal and problem resolved.

Thank you for the resolution man, i think this happen because of resizing the font setting. This happened to me too because of that. The funny thing is even the the moderator in microsoft community didnt know how to fix this.

Thanks a lot!!! It happened on my new win 11 laptop. (Didnt happened before on my win10 desktop). I was trying to fix it for an hour and was thinking it's an win11 issue. Your video saved me thanks!!!

Thanks man! This one annoyed me for a while now. Mine was set to more than -40000, so it just stretched across my entire screen.

Thank you so much, was struggling to find how to fix it.

from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

thanks bro. ive been using windows since 1995 and i've never seen this issue until today on windows 11

This happens with having different resolution screens, and switching between them. Its annoying.

I just upgraded to Windows 11 and suddenly got this issue. Followed your steps, however in my Registry Editor, IconSpacing is already set to -1125?

I got this while working in class and I pannicked. I didn't know what I did wrong. Thank you sooooo much you saved me from going to IT lol.

You are a genius, the vertical space was also very big on my pc so i aplly same to vertical value and fixed it. Thanks!!!

I reseted the windows and didnt fix this and then I found this video. very useful thank you very much.

Hey, I am getting issues in font, some of the software fonts are blurry. Can you please help me

Really useful thank you so much for this solution. Just had this today and the solution worked like a charm! cheers

thank you! So many people who don't know what causes this, tell you to go round and round and do this and do that and try this and try that.. and do something else that you already know about..ie "right click on desktop and select medium or small or large icon" DUH I already tried that.. And they never have the answer! haha But anyway, I was just changing the font sizes and the resizing of the entire desktop to 100% and 125% and then changing the resolution 1900x1200 to 1680x1080 or something like that, and BAM, my icons mysteriously got wide! Just like you said: "WHO KNOWS!" Crazy Microsoft. Windows 7 is still more solid OS than Windows 10. haha

thank you so much man, I recently upgraded to Windows 11 and you saved me a big time, I can go to sleep with 1 less problem now.

Worked like a charm. Thanks!

Thanks brotha, I just went to add a monitor and my icons did this, thanks again

Seems to be a multiple screen issue with different resolutions , since yesterday I keep getting issues with my pc and litteraly want to hit my head on the desk. Everything began with my Nvme not being recognised and erasong all of my pc , then formatting everything takibg alot of my time plus this ... .

Shew, so needed this fix you won't believe! Tx BOSS!

Thank you so much. I had this problem since covid, I guess even icons have to follow social distancing procedures

Worked perfectly and quickly, thank you very much

Thank's man, I've been searching for this video

You are a time saver thanks! Is there a way to fix this symbols to its place so they do not randomly roam arround when you change your display to your second Screen with WindowButtom+P ?

Thanks for the video, saved from big mess

What if this problem happens inside the folders not on the desktop?

This happens to me every time I plug my laptop on my TV. Is there anyway to prevent this from happening?

Thank you. You're awesome! Solved my issue.

Thank you. Great job. One in a billion.

It happen to me when i changed the resolution , thank you for the fix

system already released but problem is still here, thanks you have saved my sanity

Really THANK you man. I was about to recovery factory my pc.

ever since i swapped from Mac to Winsows i only get bugs and "oopsies" from some automated system changing some stupid user-hostile features. Ik who works at indows but a braindead ape would put those options and everything in the settings-display part and not go into some root files and search for a solution.

Still works, just saved me so much time and hassle.

Thanks so much man, randomly all my apps got large like that and the majority got squished into one icon somehow and it was almost unusable

Thanks man. Worked great

My laptop has a resolution problen. Icons and toolbar are way too big that I cannot access to anything in the computer.

Hold "start" and then "r" ?! Am I super dumb or does my keyboard not have the start button?? 😢

thank you so much this save my pc so much 😁😁

Excellent solution video I ever seen

I just restarted my PC and it just worked, even without your tips, but thanks anyway

How this happend to me I was changing the text size in accessibility and every time I changed it the icons kept getting bigger

Only somewhat worked. I still can't space my icons on my desktop like I used to it won't let me.

It worked for me. Thank you!

why are icons coming in horizontal way on desktop

I had a similar issue after wirelessly connecting to my Samsung smart TV. I was also changing the resolution and text size to adjust to that display.

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This saved my job. Thank you so much

Thank you very much. This solved my problem.

You are a true hero

Thanks for that, worked perfectly in WIndows 11 as well.

Thank you. You solved my problem!

More Power sir, saves me a possible trouble with my boss.. thank you so much.. i just change the computer themes and then suddenly the icon distance's changed..

Legend. Fixed it.

Thank you so much...worked like a charm 🙌🏻

Thank you brother, thank you so much, this video helps me to solve my problem.😍😍

Thank you, saved me lots of time

WORKED THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO

thank you so much bro ! very helpful

This was a big help nice job explaining everything..

Thanks a lot man, you're a life saver

Thank you so much I never ran in to that before thank you so much

Awesome fix! Thanks mate

Good video bro !

Yay! Thank you! Very helpful video.

thankssss a lotttt I was soooo annoooooooooyyeeeedddd why this happened 🙏thankyou

Dude thanks you saved my life

laterally saved my life ,,, thanks

it worked, thank you very much for the video

I FUCKING LOVE YOU!!! I was 6 hours in of troubleshooting!!! THANK YOU!!!! Now onto why all my icons move when I plug in a second monitor….