Windows 10: Icon & Font Layout in File Explorer Medium View is broken

Just reformatted my laptop. Clean install with the latest version of Windows. Carried out all updates and noticed that the spacing with the font isn't right. I asked a few friends online and some have this issue, some don't. I also have a Surface Pro where the issue isn't there I forced the same scaling/resolution options to try and reproduce the problem.


Setup:


Windows Version 10.0.19042

Display 17.3"

Resolution 1080p

Scaling 100%

Font Size 100% In accessibility

File Explorer View set to "Medium Icons"

Sort By "Name" & "Ascending"

Group By - None


Issue: - See image below. Most longer names carry onto a second line now. It appears to be some sort of scaling or size issue but this was never present before. I can only imagine it's some sort of new update or registry change that has caused it.


I've Tried:


I thought it may be the desktop scaling issue so I went into the registry and tried changing the setting there tried extremes like 500 and 1500. It made changes to the desktop but, unsurprisingly, didn't affect the file explorer.


I thought possibly changing the scaling to another setting, restarting, and then changing it back would help. It didn't


I tried changing the font size in accessiblity, then changing it back. No change.


If I set the Explorer View to "Tiles", "Small Icons", "Large Icons", "List", etc, etc, it sorts the issue. It's purely Medium Icons that the problem lies with.




:)

 

Files & Folders View as medium or large Icons

To assist you better, we would suggest that you try to follow the steps below:

• Open File Explorer.
• Once you are viewing a folder, right click an empty space within the File Explorer window and select View from the dialogue menu, then choose Large or any icon you wanted to use. Alternatively, you can use the following shortcut keys on the keyboard to
  change your View settings:

• CTRL + SHIFT + 1 Extra Large
• CTRL + SHIFT + 2 Large icons
• CTRL + SHIFT + 3 Medium Icons
• CTRL + SHIFT + 4 Small Icons
• CTRL + SHIFT + 5 List
• CTRL + SHIFT + 6 Details
• CTRL + SHIFT + 7 Tiles
• CTRL + SHIFT + 8 Content

3. Once you have the view set, you can make it the default view for

every folder.

4. Click Apply, then click OK.

Update us on the result.

 

View Layout Icons

In the lower right corner of the File Explorer
there are two icons that have something to do
with View Layout: 'Detail' and 'Large Icons'.


I would like to:
1. Add the 'List' view because this is the type I
often use, or:
2. Replace the 'Large Icon' with 'List'.


How do I do it?

 

View Layout Icons

To do what you wish, you would have to modify a couple system files, (but I can't remember which ones!) *Redface, risky endeavor though!

Your alternatives:

- right click inside the folder, hover on View, choose List

- with mouse focus inside the folder press Ctrl+Shift+5

- try "Old/New Explorer" with a menu of all 8 options in the upper right command bar.