Vista - Control panel issue!!!

Hello,

Am I the only one who has noticed once you change to "classic view" in the
control panel there is no way to change back. I read the help file on this
one and it said to click on "Control panel home" but I still cannot see this
featured anywhere!

As soon as I clicked on "category view" the lefthand bar dissappeared, I've
gone into folder options and tried to bring it back with the 'show preview
and filters' radio button but it appears at this time that category view is
gone!!

You're lucky - you haven't lost your entire Control Panel - but it's a known
bug. They said it'd be fixed by Beta 2... but nope (

--
Zack Whittaker
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that up!

--: Original message follows :--
"Kooby" <Kooby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:121A6319-83E2-41AC-9344-9CC77B4BE4B0@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> Am I the only one who has noticed once you change to "classic view" in the
> control panel there is no way to change back. I read the help file on this
> one and it said to click on "Control panel home" but I still cannot see
> this
> featured anywhere!
>
> As soon as I clicked on "category view" the lefthand bar dissappeared,
> I've
> gone into folder options and tried to bring it back with the 'show preview
> and filters' radio button but it appears at this time that category view
> is
> gone!!

Oh well,

We can only hope that this issue is resolved and then sent to all of us in
the form of a windows update patch. It was the first thing I noticed that was
definately wrong apart from trying to make Sync Center dissappear which I now
regret opening to begin with. I've hidden it in the task bar but it's still
there... I just can't find where to get rid of it!

"Zack Whittaker" wrote:

> You're lucky - you haven't lost your entire Control Panel - but it's a known
> bug. They said it'd be fixed by Beta 2... but nope (
>
> --
> Zack Whittaker
> » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
> » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
> » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
> » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not
> of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
> that up!
>
> --: Original message follows :--
> "Kooby" <Kooby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:121A6319-83E2-41AC-9344-9CC77B4BE4B0@microsoft.com...
> > Hello,
> >
> > Am I the only one who has noticed once you change to "classic view" in the
> > control panel there is no way to change back. I read the help file on this
> > one and it said to click on "Control panel home" but I still cannot see
> > this
> > featured anywhere!
> >
> > As soon as I clicked on "category view" the lefthand bar dissappeared,
> > I've
> > gone into folder options and tried to bring it back with the 'show preview
> > and filters' radio button but it appears at this time that category view
> > is
> > gone!!
>
>
>

If I were you (take a hint from me... your problem was my intial problem,
but got worse...), copy and paste shortcuts of each Control Panel item into
a folder on the Desktop - because if your Control Panel disappears... at
least you can still access it then )

--
Zack Whittaker
» ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
» MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
» Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
» This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not
of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
that up!

--: Original message follows :--
"Kooby" <Kooby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A5A08581-0887-4802-AF45-6D5FD6AE2AA9@microsoft.com...
> Oh well,
>
> We can only hope that this issue is resolved and then sent to all of us in
> the form of a windows update patch. It was the first thing I noticed that
> was
> definately wrong apart from trying to make Sync Center dissappear which I
> now
> regret opening to begin with. I've hidden it in the task bar but it's
> still
> there... I just can't find where to get rid of it!
>
> "Zack Whittaker" wrote:
>
>> You're lucky - you haven't lost your entire Control Panel - but it's a
>> known
>> bug. They said it'd be fixed by Beta 2... but nope (
>>
>> --
>> Zack Whittaker
>> » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
>> » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
>> » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
>> » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and
>> not
>> of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
>> that up!
>>
>> --: Original message follows :--
>> "Kooby" <Kooby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:121A6319-83E2-41AC-9344-9CC77B4BE4B0@microsoft.com...
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > Am I the only one who has noticed once you change to "classic view" in
>> > the
>> > control panel there is no way to change back. I read the help file on
>> > this
>> > one and it said to click on "Control panel home" but I still cannot see
>> > this
>> > featured anywhere!
>> >
>> > As soon as I clicked on "category view" the lefthand bar dissappeared,
>> > I've
>> > gone into folder options and tried to bring it back with the 'show
>> > preview
>> > and filters' radio button but it appears at this time that category
>> > view
>> > is
>> > gone!!
>>
>>
>>

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 21:19:01 -0700, Kooby
<Kooby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Am I the only one who has noticed once you change to "classic view" in the
>control panel there is no way to change back. I read the help file on this
>one and it said to click on "Control panel home" but I still cannot see this
>featured anywhere!

Strange, I can go back to the default Vista view simply by clicking
"Control Panel home" -- no hesitation, no problems.
>
>As soon as I clicked on "category view" the lefthand bar dissappeared, I've
>gone into folder options and tried to bring it back with the 'show preview
>and filters' radio button but it appears at this time that category view is
>gone!!

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 21:19:01 -0700, Kooby
<Kooby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Am I the only one who has noticed once you change to "classic view" in the
>control panel there is no way to change back. I read the help file on this
>one and it said to click on "Control panel home" but I still cannot see this
>featured anywhere!
>
>As soon as I clicked on "category view" the lefthand bar dissappeared, I've
>gone into folder options and tried to bring it back with the 'show preview
>and filters' radio button but it appears at this time that category view is
>gone!!

How did you install Vista, upgrade or clean?

I'm having the same problem as Kooby. It's like when we click on the Classic
View the left sidebar just totally disappears and so we don't have the
opportunity to then click on Control Panel Home to get back to category view.
*shrug*

If it helps any, I did an upgrade from Windows XP.

"milleron" wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 21:19:01 -0700, Kooby
> <Kooby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >Am I the only one who has noticed once you change to "classic view" in the
> >control panel there is no way to change back. I read the help file on this
> >one and it said to click on "Control panel home" but I still cannot see this
> >featured anywhere!
>
> Strange, I can go back to the default Vista view simply by clicking
> "Control Panel home" -- no hesitation, no problems.
> >
> >As soon as I clicked on "category view" the lefthand bar dissappeared, I've
> >gone into folder options and tried to bring it back with the 'show preview
> >and filters' radio button but it appears at this time that category view is
> >gone!!
>

You can restore the normal control panel by closing all windows, opening
explorer, select show previews and filters from Folder Options, OK, then
click Change a setting button that just appeared and select Control panel
home.

Easy isn't it! :-)

Vista will bring many new support jobs which is always good!


"Zack Whittaker" <admin@zacknet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:uwYZO$9iGHA.1272@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> If I were you (take a hint from me... your problem was my intial problem,
> but got worse...), copy and paste shortcuts of each Control Panel item
> into a folder on the Desktop - because if your Control Panel disappears...
> at least you can still access it then )
>
> --
> Zack Whittaker
> » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
> » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
> » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
> » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and
> not
> of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
> that up!
>
> --: Original message follows :--
> "Kooby" <Kooby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A5A08581-0887-4802-AF45-6D5FD6AE2AA9@microsoft.com...
>> Oh well,
>>
>> We can only hope that this issue is resolved and then sent to all of us
>> in
>> the form of a windows update patch. It was the first thing I noticed that
>> was
>> definately wrong apart from trying to make Sync Center dissappear which I
>> now
>> regret opening to begin with. I've hidden it in the task bar but it's
>> still
>> there... I just can't find where to get rid of it!
>>
>> "Zack Whittaker" wrote:
>>
>>> You're lucky - you haven't lost your entire Control Panel - but it's a
>>> known
>>> bug. They said it'd be fixed by Beta 2... but nope (
>>>
>>> --
>>> Zack Whittaker
>>> » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
>>> » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
>>> » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
>>> » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
>>> rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and
>>> not
>>> of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we
>>> cleared
>>> that up!
>>>
>>> --: Original message follows :--
>>> "Kooby" <Kooby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:121A6319-83E2-41AC-9344-9CC77B4BE4B0@microsoft.com...
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > Am I the only one who has noticed once you change to "classic view" in
>>> > the
>>> > control panel there is no way to change back. I read the help file on
>>> > this
>>> > one and it said to click on "Control panel home" but I still cannot
>>> > see
>>> > this
>>> > featured anywhere!
>>> >
>>> > As soon as I clicked on "category view" the lefthand bar dissappeared,
>>> > I've
>>> > gone into folder options and tried to bring it back with the 'show
>>> > preview
>>> > and filters' radio button but it appears at this time that category
>>> > view
>>> > is
>>> > gone!!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>

I got the same problem to!!!
We shuld call or send a e-mail to somone in microsoft!!!!!!!!!
maybe that would help, cause I cant stand the classic view.

"Kooby" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Am I the only one who has noticed once you change to "classic view" in the
> control panel there is no way to change back. I read the help file on this
> one and it said to click on "Control panel home" but I still cannot see this
> featured anywhere!
>
> As soon as I clicked on "category view" the lefthand bar dissappeared, I've
> gone into folder options and tried to bring it back with the 'show preview
> and filters' radio button but it appears at this time that category view is
> gone!!