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Feb 16, 2006 16:09 |  #1

I need a little windows xp help.

I was leaning over my keyboard and pressed some keys mostly on the right side. Now in my "my pictures" folders I do not see filenames under the thumbnails in either the thumbnail or filmstrip view modes! AHHHH!

How can I get them back!


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Feb 17, 2006 00:05 |  #2

Are you serious that there are no filenames, or is it that the suffixes are missing?
Also, when you change the View mode to "Details" does everything come back to normal?

If it's just the suffixes that are missing you can easily fix that with Tools-> Folder Options->View by unchecking "Hide extensions for known file types."


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Feb 17, 2006 09:02 |  #3

Post a screenshot if you can


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Feb 17, 2006 12:48 as a reply to  @ EOSAddict's post |  #4

Open the your My Pictures folder or whatever folder you are having the problem with. Switch your viewing mode to something other than Thumbnail, Then switch it back to Thumbnail except this time when switching to Thumbnail hold down the "shift" key.


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Feb 17, 2006 13:48 |  #5

oops ! Hate when that happens :cry:


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Feb 17, 2006 14:41 as a reply to  @ Eagle's post |  #6

Eagle wrote:
Open the your My Pictures folder or whatever folder you are having the problem with. Switch your viewing mode to something other than Thumbnail, Then switch it back to Thumbnail except this time when switching to Thumbnail hold down the "shift" key.

Darn, that's neat!
Are there any more tricks like that that I don't know about? I thought I was an experience Windows user since I started with it when Windows 1.0 came out around 1989.

Actually, I'm wondering if that is really his problem. The way the OP is written it almost sounds like he's really in Windows Picture and FAX Viewer.


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Feb 17, 2006 14:52 as a reply to  @ Eagle's post |  #7

Eagle wrote:
Open the your My Pictures folder or whatever folder you are having the problem with. Switch your viewing mode to something other than Thumbnail, Then switch it back to Thumbnail except this time when switching to Thumbnail hold down the "shift" key.

Learn something new every day!


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