Windows Icon Size

The icons and text were overlapping, see below. Using a 4k screen, I tried the usual things, updating the graphics card driver, changing the screen resolution and text size to see if that made a difference…

 Nothing worked, until I noticed he had the same problem on his desktop icons (but the user didn’t complain about that…)

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 The problem was with the icon spacing on Windows, it was set up incorrectly.

 I changed the spacing via Registry, instructions on how I did it (I used method #3):

 https://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-10-icon-spacing-messed-up

 The values he had were -825, in case you’re wondering.

 Then restarted the computer and that fixed it.

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