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W2k truncates icon descriptions

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by thickage, 2003/07/30.

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  1. 2003/07/30
    thickage

    thickage Inactive Thread Starter

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    Windows 2000 chops off my icon names. If the name goes beyond the second line, it just replaces the text with dots, i.e. My Shortcut is too lo....

    Is there a way to force Win2k to display the entire shortcut text, rather than truncate it?
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    If it says "Shortcut to" remove that. TweakUI will remove it for you. Or adjust the fonts size of the desktop in display settings.
     
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    thickage

    thickage Inactive Thread Starter

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    hmmm...

    Thanks for the reply...

    No "shortcut to" is showing. I have removed that.

    There's no other way to cure this than to change the font size?

    :(
     
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    Paul

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    'fraid not!
     
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    thickage

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    tHANKs AnYhOO!

    That's a stinker!

    :mad:
     
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    Try this: go to display properties, appearance, item, select icon spacing (horizontal), size - increase this by about 10 or so. This spaces out the icons to give it more room to show more characters.
     
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