Huge padding in List View

Hello Georgi,

If you have check boxes below turned on, it'll add extra spacing to the left of items.

If you haven't already, also see if turning on compact view in File Explorer may help if line spacing may be adding to this.

Turning off the checkboxes shifts everything left by the width of the checkbox in all views and that brings everything tight to the left margin in Details, Icons (except small), and Tiles views.

However, there is a significant, unnecessary, additional gap to the left of all items in List, Small Icons, and Content views. That's the issue the OP (and I) wish to see fixed.

List view with checkboxes enabled:

List view with checkboxes disabled:

That's exactly the issue. For some reason I've contaced Microsoft support 3 times and it takes me about 45 minutes every time until the support understands what the issue is. They are giving me the same answers as the first reply here. Today I did a chat with some support guy who told me "Well, post it in the forums". It's pretty frustrating. I'm misclicking all the time, and also it looks very weird and is a huge waste of space.

That's exactly the issue. For some reason I've contaced Microsoft support 3 times and it takes me about 45 minutes every time until the support understands what the issue is. They are giving me the same answers as the first reply here. Today I did a chat with some support guy who told me "Well, post it in the forums". It's pretty frustrating. I'm misclicking all the time, and also it looks very weird and is a huge waste of space.

It was introduced a good six months ago with 22H2, as noted in this discussion.

All we can do is submit our reports and complaints via the Feedback Hub (press ⊞-F in Windows).

WHEN MICROSOFT WILL FIX THAT?

I CAN'T UPDATE TO 22H2+ DUE TO THIS HUGE PADDING ON THE LEFT!

I USING LIST VIEW 100% OF TIME.

THIS BUG IS ALSO 6+ MONTHS OLD! WHERE ARE YOU LOOKING?(

WHEN MICROSOFT WILL FIX THAT?

I CAN'T UPDATE TO 22H2+ DUE TO THIS HUGE PADDING ON THE LEFT!

I USING LIST VIEW 100% OF TIME.

THIS BUG IS ALSO 6+ MONTHS OLD! WHERE ARE YOU LOOKING?(

Well, there are more serious bugs in Windows 11 File Explorer (i.e. broken functionality) that go back nearly two years, so I wouldn't hold my breath on this one.

Do make a report in Feedback Hub. That's the official way to report an issue. This forum is essentially user to user.