It seems since I connected a third monitor the desktop icons can't be placed at the bottom row.
Here's a screenshot:
Any idea how to fix this? Thanks.
Windows – Can’t place icons on the bottom row of the desktop (Windows 7)
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Maybe its a dumb question by me but: Is this option checked?
Solution
- Press Win+R, type
regedit.exe, and click OK. - Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\1\Desktop. - Leave the registry editor windows open. Then, while pressing the Ctrl and Shift keys together, right-click the taskbar, and choose Exit Explorer from the context menu.
- Go back to the registry editor, and change the
LogicalViewModeandModevalues to3and1, respectively (i.e. the default values). - Press Shift+Ctrl+Esc to bring up the Task Manager.
- Click on File > Run new task. Type
explorer.exe, and press Enter.
Additional information
Here are the possible values:
LogicalViewMode | Value | Description
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Details | 1 | Details view
Tiles | 2 | Tiles view
Icons | 3 | Icons view
List | 4 | List view (Windows 7 and later)
Content | 5 | Content view (Windows 7 and later)
Mode | Value | Description
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Icon | 1 | Medium-size icons
Small icon | 2 | Small icons (seems unused)
List | 3 | Object names are displayed in a list view
Details | 4 | Object names and other selected information are shown
Thumbnail | 5 | Thumbnail icons
Tiles | 6 | Large icons
Thumbstrip | 7 | Display icons in a filmstrip format (XP only)
Content | 8 | Content mode (Windows 7 and later)
Best Answer
This has to do with the icon vertical spacing. Whatever you have it set to, there isn't a full row remaining below (between what you see & the taskbar) so the bottom full row seems as if it has a row of space below it, when actually it's not enough space for another row.
So if you want to have the icons land lower, you have to adjust the vertical spacing for icons. I usually do this a pixel or two at a time.
In Windows 7, it's in the Display Properties as right-click on empty space on the desktop > Personalize > Window Color > Advanced Appearance Settings > Icon Spacing (Vertical). Just bump it up a pixel or two at a time, then re-auto-arrange the desktop etc. until you find a setting that arranges the rows so that the top is at the top & the bottom is close enough to the bottom to suit you.
I'm not sure if I'm being clear, but simplified: suppose the screen is 100 pixels high. If you set the icon spacing to 13 pixels, you'll fit 7 rows and have 9 pixels left at the bottom (out of the 13 needed for another row), so it might look very much like your posted image. But if you set the vertical spacing to 12 pixels, it will only have 4 left at the bottom, so will seem to be more of a "bottom row".