Comments on: Missing File and Folder Names in Windows Vista Explorer Large Icon and Details View Easter Egg (or Bug?)

By: Woldu

Woldu — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:54:23 +0000

First of all, Svhoud (first comment) is correct when he says there is no necessity or possibility that there would ever be an “easter egg” in a product such as a Microsoft OS; much less any other software today.

Second, and this may be due to the recent Service pack upgrade, but your method did not only fail for me, it is retarded. What did work was Right clicking inside the problem folder going to VIEW > then Unchecking HIDE FILE NAMES.

By: RJ

RJ — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:53:58 +0000

I followed as Ayush Baheti said and it worked too!
Thanks a lot.

By: Alice Landers

Alice Landers — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:28:39 +0000

I followed as Ayush Baheti said and it worked

Thanks!!!!!

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By: Ayush Baheti

Ayush Baheti — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:48:07 +0000

Switch to Details view. Then press and hold the SHIFT key, and from the “Views” drop-down, select “Medium Icons”. Close and reopen the folder.

By: xoltbis

xoltbis — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:44:02 +0000

Thanks for the posts, by the way i haven’f succeded in finding the “Hide File Names” application. I’m using SP1 Vista (hungarian version) and so far i haven’t even neeeded to press Shift for changing the views quickly, furthermore I believe there is an easier method.
Get in any subfolder in that winchester where u noticed the bug/issue, and in customizing the folder select the folder types to All, istead of “Pictures and Videos” and put a mark below to use this option to the subfolders either, after this u just have to go to the “mother” folder which contains that folder which u have made the changes previously, and in “Folder and Search Options” apply this change at all subfolders.
This solved for me, this issue once and for all. I just hope didnt make anything worse:D
However on the Hungerian Microsoft-help, it said that this is bug not remains in SP1…

By: VISTA

VISTA — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:16:23 +0000

Yet another brilliant Vista “feature” that only manages to give me more headaches.

By: Mariusz

Mariusz — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:56:26 +0000

Geo’s post is the most informative so far on this issue. The disappearing filenames in any of the icon views have been a constant source of frustration for me. I am sure this is happening so often to me, because Shift-Alt key switches keyboard maps and I am in multilingual environment. In particular, filenames can have Latin, Cyrillic, and other characters.

That a bug IS INVOLVED, I am virtually certain, however, since disappance of filename labels happens to me in “All Items” folders — not “Pictures and Videos” folders, where the option “Hide File Names” is present, and even may make sense.

I would say the level of annoyance present in this issue is comparable with another nightmare in Windows Vista: its inability to remember the view of a folder. I can’t believe that something like that could be released by Microsoft programmers to the public. Why such well attested annoyances haven’t been fixed yet?

By: Geo

Geo — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:35:56 +0000

While I personally think it’s a terrible idea, this is NOT a bug! It’s a known part of the OS. The idea is that you are supposed to be able to display just the thumbnails of images in “Pictures and Videos” folder types.
In fact, if you change a folder’s “type” (Right click on a folder icon->Customize->Pictures and Videos pulldown), and you then right click and bring up the view from within that folder, you’ll see an OPTION called “Hide File Names” that allows you to do this very thing.
Also, as mentioned in reply #3, you don’t have to involve the CTRL key at all, only the shift key. Unfortunately, the proposed fix doesn’t work either. You’re SUPPOSED to just have to double-click to open the folder while holding down the shift key, but that is completely hit or miss.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:28:40 +0000

Actually, i face the problem now and i tried the solution above but it didn’t work. I still have lost the names on two drives. Any other trick?

By: Budkhuu

Budkhuu — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:46:19 +0000

Actually do not have to hold CTRL and Shift keys, just need to hold Shift key. And this bug is still in Vista SP1.

By: a wok

a wok — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:38:58 +0000

XP also have something similar when you use the miniature view, after performing the same steps for vista.

By: Svhoud

Svhoud — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:23:12 +0000

Anybody working in software industry knows that there’s no room for easter eggs in any piece of code. Any un-necessary feature poses a security risk or creates potential bugs elsewhere in the product… easter eggs are a relic from the past.

it’s at 100% certainty a bug