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PostPosted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 3:38 am 
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I've been using Windows 7 since April 2013 and thanks to Classic Shell and Classic Explorer I've survived it so far ;-)

Today I changed the icons for open and closed folders like so
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Shell Icons]
"3"="\"C:\\ClassicShell\\icons\\folder3.ico\""
"4"="\"C:\\ClassicShell\\icons\\folder4.ico\""

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Icons]
"3"="\"C:\\ClassicShell\\icons\\folder3.ico\""
"4"="\"C:\\ClassicShell\\icons\\folder4.ico\""

to the old icons from Windows XP.

In Classic Explorer you can change the tree item spacing in the Navigation Pane.

Question: Can you also somehow change the spacing in the file pane? I'd like to reduce the space in between the icons. See attached screenshot.

Perhaps the answer is "no": GauravK
wrote in another post:
The left pane of Explorer uses the standard treeview control whose behavior can be modified because it is documented. The right pane of Windows 7/8 Explorer uses an undocumented private ItemsView control.


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Use Folder Options X (http://free-sk.t-com.hr/T800soft/softwa ... ptions.htm) to disable full row select. It forces Explorer to use the older List View control which has reduced icon spacing. It works except for Libraries.

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 18, 2013 11:27 am 
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Fantastic! Thank you so much.
Folder Options X was already installed on my machine, but I had it do nothing, since I wasn't aware of this feature. Now the view looks like this (see attachment).
Thank you once again for the great software and the great support.


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