Wi. 8 Desktop Icon Spacing too large.

[Respigi]

Hi All,
       My new Win. 8 laptop has about 18 small icons on the desktop and there are 10 spaced about 25mm apart on bottom row with another row about 25mm above that with the same spacing.
 This spacing is far too large and results the two rows taking up about  30% of the desktop area.
 I can position my icons in Win.7 on my PC but not with Win. 8 on my Samsung laptop.
 Anyone know a solution?

[patio]

From Personilasition in Control Panel there are many settings you can change...including icon size screen resolution, layout etc etc etc

[Respigi]

Thanks for reply. Yes that would be the obvious place to look, but after an hour of searching  I can find nothing on spacing of icons or where to find a smaller grid to place them in.

[Geek-9pm]

There is third-party tool for Icon spacing. But it is limited to just the desktop icon spacing.
http://www.downloadinformer.com/2012/08/desktop-icons-spacing-controller.html

[BC_Programmer]

If you want the icons smaller, you can change your system DPI. You can change this by right-clicking the desktop, selecting "Screen Resolution" and then clicking the "Make text and other items larger or smaller". You can adjust the slider as desired.

You can also change the text size for icons in this same dialog.

If you want to change the spacing, you can follow these instructions from MS:

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2805467