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Chapter 1: Exploring the Windows 7 Desktop
Figure 1-7: The Desktop shortcut menu,
View submenu
Figure 1-8: The Desktop shortcut menu,
Sort By submenu
Arrange Icons on the Desktop
1. Right-click the desktop and choose View in the resulting
shortcut menu; be sure that Auto Arrange Icons isn’t
selected, as shown in Figure 1-7. (If it is selected, dese-
lect it before proceeding to the next step.)
2. Right-click the Windows 7 desktop. In the resulting
shortcut menu, choose Sort By and then click the crite-
ria for sorting your desktop shortcuts (see Figure 1-8).
3. You can also click any icon and drag it to another loca-
tion on the desktop — for example, to separate it from
other desktop icons so you can find it easily.
If you’ve rearranged your desktop by moving items hither, thither,
and yon and you want your icons in orderly rows along the
left side of your desktop, snap them into place with the Auto
Arrange feature. Right-click the desktop and then choose View
➪
Auto Arrange Icons.
To change the size of desktop icons, use the shortcut menu in Step
1 and choose Large Icons, Medium Icons, or Small Icons.
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