How do I fix the display of Windows 7's Control Panel?

How do I fix the display of Windows 7's Control Panel? This has really bugged me since I took the plunge and upgraded to Windows 7. I think everything is great on the whole apart from the Control Panel.
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bert [Entry]

"The Control Panel uses Tiles View to display the items. Tiles View is left to right and is default behavior (In fact, Icons (Small/Large) View is left to right too)

Unfortunately, there is no way to tell the control panel to use List View, which is what you seem to want. (Only List View, Details View and Content View is top to bottom)."

bert [Entry]

Hey, I found a solution! Simply make your Control Panel window's horizontal dimensions smaller (i.e. make your control panel tall and skinny). Now there is no annoying left-right ordering because you have a single column of icons listed in alphabetical order, which you can easily scroll up and down.