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cannot change icon spacing
Name: djones33 Date: October 4, 2006 at 12:36:47 Pacific OS: win2000 CPU/Ram: pent 4 Product: intel
Comment:
Sytem hangs when icon spacing is changed. What program handles this process within Display Settings on the WIN2000 screen?
Name: don2006 Date: October 5, 2006 at 16:43:31 Pacific
Reply:
Does it hang when you try to move the icons w/ the mouse or when you try to rearrange them by a right click?
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Response Number 2
Name: H (by _hank) Date: October 6, 2006 at 09:46:34 Pacific
Reply:
I believe he means when you bring up the display properties->appearance dialogue. You can change the horizontal/vertical icon spacing under the item drop-down menu.
Rundll32.exe is the process that runs when you look in the task manager.
I've run across this once. I don't remember what I did though. You can try reinstalling IE.
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Response Number 3
Name: don2006 Date: October 6, 2006 at 15:38:13 Pacific
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Why would reinstalling IE have anything to do w/ that?
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Response Number 4
Name: H (by _hank) Date: October 6, 2006 at 19:54:10 Pacific
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Since IE is part of the windows shell, repairing it usually fixes desktop related issues.
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Response Number 5
Name: don2006 Date: October 7, 2006 at 06:02:16 Pacific
Reply:
I never heard of that and I never would have thought of it either.
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Response Number 6
Name: jboy Date: October 9, 2006 at 20:42:43 Pacific
Summary: I have a weird problem. I cannot change my monitor type. It is set as "Default Monitor" and there is no way to change it. The monitor options doesn't appear in Device Manager, and the Properties Optio...
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