In message , R.Wieser
writes:
John,

And that turns out to be rather easy: Just walk your way down the
desktop
controls until you have the SysListView32 one and than use SetWindowPos to
move it around. :-)
...
That might be easy for _you_; the above means little to me (-:!

My apologies. For some reason I assumed you where programming too.

Although never professionally, I dabbled with various programming
languages throughout my school and working life, so have a fair
knowledge - mainly of concepts rather than details.

As for "easy", I am able to move and shrink the SysListView32 control (the
one which holds the icons), but whatever I try I cannot get it to reorder
the icons to reflect the smaller space (icons are simply pushed down-and-off
the control, rendering them invisible and unreachable). :-\

The above sounds as if you're moving some box or control, as some part
of a GUI? The only controls for icon positions I know of are in
something I recognise, that has samples of Inactive Window, Active
Window, menu, Message Box, and Message Text, and a drop-down list headed
Item, where the default entry is Desktop; in Windows 7, it is titled
Window Color and Appearance, I can't remember if it was the same in XP.
(To get to it in 7 you have to look in a weird place: it's under Window
Color, between Desktop Background and Sounds, in Personalization.) The
drop-down list includes Icon Spacing (Horizontal) and Icon Spacing
(Vertical). They're in pixels; another item in the list is Icon, where
you can select icon size and font. Sadly there's no Offset. Nothing that
matches the description if them being "pushed down-and-off the control",
though.
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