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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) ?

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Edit: Ctrl + Mouse Wheel doesn't help

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    If a malicious cat is allowed to sleep on the keyboard, it's not your computer anymore ;) Jan 5, 2016 at 15:10
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    +1 for identifying "a cat slept on the keyboard" as cause of the problem.
    – dr_
    Jan 5, 2016 at 15:28
  • I am debating if I should tag this with cat
    – Burgi
    Jan 6, 2016 at 13:46
  • Possible duplicate of How can I keep my cat off my keyboard... :P Jan 10, 2016 at 2:00
  • @angussidney Probably should say "related"? Actually I didn't know this lifehacks stackexchange existed and thanks for the link.
    – xji
    Jan 10, 2016 at 4:45

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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.

  1. Extra Large Icons
  2. Large Icons
  3. Medium Icons
  4. Small Icons
  5. List View
  6. Details
  7. Tiles
  8. Content

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))

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    Wow, I didn't know that you can have detailed view in the desktop (Ctrl+Shift+6 in my Windows 10)!
    – aff
    Jan 4, 2016 at 9:10
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    windows 7 doesn't seem to support this Jan 4, 2016 at 12:32
  • I didn't know either! Awesome. +1 because I learned something new.
    – LPChip
    Jan 4, 2016 at 12:59
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    Ctrl+Alt+8 on my Windows Server 2016 TP4 (Simplified Chinese)
    – jingyu9575
    Jan 5, 2016 at 8:53
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    Never underestimate what a cat can do to your equipment. My father's cat managed to remove some keys from the laptop's keyboard.
    – dr_
    Jan 5, 2016 at 15:31

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