Vista - More missing filenames!

03-14-2009

A friend's desktop machine (running under Vista) has suddenly started
omitting the file names under the icons in Windows Explorer.

I discovered that if you right click in the white pane and select view you
can take the tick out of the 'Hide file names' box - although sometimes it
only appears if you hold the shift key down.

The problem is that somehow it has been set as a default because every
folder and subfolder does not display the file names unless you go through
the procedure above, which is very tiresome.

Is there a way to reset the default to always show the filenames?

Thanks for any help,

Noel

03-14-2009

It appears that the answer is here:

http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.a...tno=107&pgno=2

Sorry to have troubled the group - I did search before writing!

Noel

"Noel S Pamfree" <Noel.spamfree@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:

>A friend's desktop machine (running under Vista) has suddenly started
> omitting the file names under the icons in Windows Explorer.
>
> I discovered that if you right click in the white pane and select view you
> can take the tick out of the 'Hide file names' box - although sometimes it
> only appears if you hold the shift key down.
>
> The problem is that somehow it has been set as a default because every
> folder and subfolder does not display the file names unless you go through
> the procedure above, which is very tiresome.
>
> Is there a way to reset the default to always show the filenames?
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Noel
>
>
>
>

03-14-2009	#1 (permalink)
Noel S Pamfree n/a posts	More missing filenames! A friend's desktop machine (running under Vista) has suddenly started omitting the file names under the icons in Windows Explorer. I discovered that if you right click in the white pane and select view you can take the tick out of the 'Hide file names' box - although sometimes it only appears if you hold the shift key down. The problem is that somehow it has been set as a default because every folder and subfolder does not display the file names unless you go through the procedure above, which is very tiresome. Is there a way to reset the default to always show the filenames? Thanks for any help, Noel
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03-14-2009	#2 (permalink)
Noel S Pamfree n/a posts	Re: More missing filenames! It appears that the answer is here: http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.a...tno=107&pgno=2 Sorry to have troubled the group - I did search before writing! Noel "Noel S Pamfree" <Noel.spamfree@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23mSzqdJpJHA.3840@xxxxxx Quote: >A friend's desktop machine (running under Vista) has suddenly started > omitting the file names under the icons in Windows Explorer. > > I discovered that if you right click in the white pane and select view you > can take the tick out of the 'Hide file names' box - although sometimes it > only appears if you hold the shift key down. > > The problem is that somehow it has been set as a default because every > folder and subfolder does not display the file names unless you go through > the procedure above, which is very tiresome. > > Is there a way to reset the default to always show the filenames? > > Thanks for any help, > > Noel > > > >
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