Windows Vista Resetting default folder-view behavior

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A few weeks ago I must have inadvertently pressed some key combination, and
now every folder I open is displaying as a photo/video folder, with no
filenames dislplayed.

This is happening even for folders containing no images or video.

I've gone through and unchecked the "Hide File Names" on a number of
folders, only to have the file names missing again when I reopen (some of)
them at a later date.

Clearly, whatever I accidentally did has affected nearly all of the folder
views on my machine, because if I go into folders I haven't opened for over a
month (which contain only text documents and sub-folders), even those are not
displaying file names.

How do I get the system-wide properties of folder display back to the way it
was, where the default view of a folder's contents was the "Documents" or
"All Items" display? I can see how to do it for sub-directories, but not
system wide.

Thank you.
 
Re: Resetting default folder-view behavior

Windows Explorer Folder View settings - Vista Forums:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/70819-windows-explorer-folder-view-settings.html
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"IWantXPBack" <IWantXPBack@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> A few weeks ago I must have inadvertently pressed some key combination,
> and
> now every folder I open is displaying as a photo/video folder, with no
> filenames dislplayed.
>
> This is happening even for folders containing no images or video.
>
> I've gone through and unchecked the "Hide File Names" on a number of
> folders, only to have the file names missing again when I reopen (some of)
> them at a later date.
>
> Clearly, whatever I accidentally did has affected nearly all of the folder
> views on my machine, because if I go into folders I haven't opened for
> over a
> month (which contain only text documents and sub-folders), even those are
> not
> displaying file names.
>
> How do I get the system-wide properties of folder display back to the way
> it
> was, where the default view of a folder's contents was the "Documents" or
> "All Items" display? I can see how to do it for sub-directories, but not
> system wide.
>
> Thank you.
 
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