Windows Icon Spacing reverting back to default after rebooting

Discussion in 'Windows 11' started by Super Spartan, Oct 11, 2025 at 04:36.

  1. Super Spartan

    Super Spartan MDL Expert

    May 30, 2014
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    I have an ASUS ROG Strix Scar 16 laptop. I usually set my icon spacing to a value of -2200

    Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics

    Every reboot, that value resets to -1200, so the icons are squished next to each other and the text is truncated.

    I initially thought it might be due to one of the built-in utilities that handles multi monitors, GlideX and ScreenXpert, but even after uninstalling them, that didn't fix the issue.

    What else might be causing this? I never had this problem before, must be something with those ASUS utilities but I can't for the life of me figure it out
     
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  2. pm67310

    pm67310 MDL Guru

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    Use reg2admx to create custom gpo and force setting after every start from computer
     
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