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"Detail" in Explorer View options broke

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wallerkr

IS-IT--Management
Mar 29, 2000
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I have a user whose machine lock up in an application the other day.&nbsp;&nbsp;The machine was rebooted with no apparent errors but this morning the user notice that when she changed the view on a folder from list to details (using Explorer), the contents shows absolutely nothing.&nbsp;&nbsp;Backing up the tree to the root directory, and I think the 1st-level directories you can see the attributes column but nothing else.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you switch to list mode the file names show up.<br><br>The same user on a different machine is ok.&nbsp;&nbsp;Admin login to this machine is ok, which leads me to suspect her profile. <br><br>Has anyone encountered this before?
 
I had the same thing happen to my computer.&nbsp;&nbsp;What I discovered was that the columns had &quot;shifted&quot; tothe right and off the screen.&nbsp;&nbsp;There was no scroll bar to indicate this.&nbsp;&nbsp;I just happened to notice a &quot;cut&quot; in the area where the topof the columns would be and started shifting things around.&nbsp;&nbsp;I had to do a lot of rearranging, but finally got things back the way I wanted them.
 
Funny you should mention that.&nbsp;&nbsp;I happened to move around the mouse while debating what to do next when I noticed the mouse change to the double-line indicating columns could be moved from the left. Lo and behold, all the columns were there but all moved all the way over to the left.&nbsp;&nbsp;Same here, a lot of rearranging but all is well now.&nbsp;&nbsp;Strange.&nbsp;&nbsp;It's not something a user would normally do to themselves.
 
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