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A cat slept on the keyboard and all my desktop icons are now looking like in the picture : Three lines of text description to the right of the image. How can I fix it to see the normal behavior ( one line below the picture) ?
Edit: Ctrl + Mouse Wheel doesn't help
Evgeniy Mishustin
Posted 2016-01-04T08:50:30.557
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I'm not sure how your cat managed it, as the keyboard shortcut to do this is Ctrl + Shift + 8 I believe.
However, to put it back to normal, right click anywhere on the desktop, click view, followed by any option, EG Medium Icons.
EDIT: As there has been some interest, CTRL + SHIFT + number produces different views when used on any folder, including the Windows Desktop.
Tested working in Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows Servers 2012 and 2016 (Hotkey may vary between editions, as it's reported to be Ctrl + Alt on Windows Server 2016 TP4 (Simplified Chinese))
Jonno
Posted 2016-01-04T08:50:30.557
Reputation: 18 756
4Wow, I didn't know that you can have detailed view in the desktop (Ctrl+Shift+6 in my Windows 10)! – aff – 2016-01-04T09:10:47.503
11windows 7 doesn't seem to support this – Boris Callens – 2016-01-04T12:32:33.593
I didn't know either! Awesome. +1 because I learned something new. – LPChip – 2016-01-04T12:59:43.993
Have updated my answer with your findings, thanks. – Jonno – 2016-01-04T13:27:25.803
2Ctrl+Alt+8 on my Windows Server 2016 TP4 (Simplified Chinese) – jingyu9575 – 2016-01-05T08:53:13.613
1Never underestimate what a cat can do to your equipment. My father's cat managed to remove some keys from the laptop's keyboard. – dr01 – 2016-01-05T15:31:35.797
10If a malicious cat is allowed to sleep on the keyboard, it's not your computer anymore ;) – Mario Trucco – 2016-01-05T15:10:11.970
19+1 for identifying "a cat slept on the keyboard" as cause of the problem. – dr01 – 2016-01-05T15:28:57.680
I am debating if I should tag this with [tag:cat] – Burgi – 2016-01-06T13:46:45.867
Possible duplicate of How can I keep my cat off my keyboard... :P
– angussidney – 2016-01-10T02:00:56.317@angussidney Probably should say "related"? Actually I didn't know this lifehacks stackexchange existed and thanks for the link. – xji – 2016-01-10T04:45:20.853