Vista Control Panel Help

My daughter was messing with my computer the other day while sitting on my lap. She pressed some buttons and now my Vista control panel doesnt have any words in Small, medium, large, and extra large icon views. All others have the words. How do I reset the control panel or get the words back without reinstalling?

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Try clicking on "view" then schroll to "choose details" , click on that, then see if "name" is checked.

 

Its checked. I tried to uncheck it, but it wouldnt let me.

 

Same under Vista? Hard to say when peeps don't get back:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com...i/thread/e4d610aa-9ec9-4955-a077-f3fba68aa172



PS - There a nVidia cp running in the background?

 

Ive tried registering the .dlls. It didnt work. Im using Vista Ultimate 64-bit.

Yes NVIDIA cp is running. I do have an NVIDIA card. Im probably going to disable it since I dont need it.

 

Doubting a corrupt shelliconcache, one thought among several. Unsure what'll do it though I'd for sure remove nVidia's cp from the equation.

 

Already had a look at all that stuff. Is there a way to just set it back to default? Or I can grab the control panel settings off of my wifes laptop and import it. I just dont know where it is at.

 

Sorry I took so long to reply, I have to admit I am lost and getting further lost with each day, when I first tried the "choose details" as I said above, I was able to uncheck "name" and recheck it with no problem ( the names would dissapear and then reappear depending on the selection). When you came back and said you couldn't change the check box, I tried it again and now I can't change it! I tried rebooting and still no go, I wonder if trying to change the folder options back to default would make the names appear again. Have you tried that. I did notice that the control folder is different though but maybe worth a try. Or maybe you have all ready.
I have Vista 32 bit home premuim.

 

Found this, see if it helps. I sure hope so!

In Windows XP, holding the SHIFT key when changing to Thumbnails view toggled the display of file name. This trick works in Windows Vista as well. Follow these steps:
Open the folder which is exhibiting this behavior
From the Views dropdown list, select Details
Press and hold the SHIFT key, and select Medium Icons (or Large Icons) from the Views dropdown list
Close and re-open the folder.

 

Good find so long as those pesky registry cleaners haven't already foiled things - http://www.winhelponline.com/articl...-folder-is-set-to-Icons-in-Windows-Vista.html

 

OMFG it worked. Thanks a ton.

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Well that is great news whitedragon551 !

 

What would really interest me now would be finding out what was done to the computer in the first place.

 

What do you mean what was done to the computer?

 

Sorry I was away for a while. whitedragon551 says in his first post