Comments on: Fix For When Windows Explorer in Vista Stops Showing File Names

By: Jack Yan

Jack Yan — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:21:17 +0000

Thank you! This worked for me, although I do not know how to show the file menu (in order to look for ‘Hide File Names’). Instead I right-clicked at random places till I saw a menu that had that option. Took a few minutes but eventually I stumbled across one.
Had been looking for a fix for an hour—thank you for providing it! (I have also documented your fix on my blog, to point more people this way.)

By: Suzanne Courtney

Suzanne Courtney — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:42:56 +0000

I just want to say that this does not solve the problem for me. If you check the box to apply the same folder option to the subfolders, this does not fix it. You still have to go through every single folder and manually make the changes. And, it then has continued to reverse itself on occasion when I leave the folder and come back.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:45:58 +0000

Yariv you can do this in xp just in a different way. right click some empty space, go to view, then hold down the shift key and click “thumbnails” and presto! no more filenames. This also works in vista.

By: Khalil

Khalil — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:11:54 +0000

Hi …

I am using Vista Ultimate, my file names of my C Drive are not showing. Don’t know how it went away, but none of the solutions given by the many forums have checked worked. Because the C Drive does not have a Customize folder option.

I have already made a folder that does have that option the default for all folders, but that does not solve the problem.
Please respond urgently.

Thanks
Khalil

By: daniel

daniel — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:28:09 +0000

thanks so much. has been annoying me for ages.

By: mark schwarzman

mark schwarzman — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:32:28 +0000

my windows explorer is acting up rely bad here is what is happing I think it is a virus because it knoced out my fire wall and filter so now when i turn on my computer it says windows explorer has shut down looking for alternitive and then it says windows is shuting down now it dose not shut down it sits there and it takes down evrey thing but the background and 5 seconds later it will have cycled through this agin so can you please help me I want to get on my computer agin

By: klaas

klaas — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:17:13 +0000

Nice, but how can one disable the way Vista randomly selects how to display the contents in a folder ?
Everytime when I open a folder I see it displayed like ‘images and videos’ and the other time like ‘music’ and I select the Displat ‘details’ and ‘All items’ which I want to have as default.
How can I get rid of the ‘date image taken’ and star rating ?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:40:59 +0000

Oh THANK YOU! I have been trying to find this option for the last hour. You kinda figure that if you are going to spend that much money on makeing “the perfect OS,” you would be able to maintain directory entegrity. But hay, what do I know? Right?

By: Yariv

Yariv — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:15:24 +0000

Unfortunately, you can’t hide the file name on XP, it’s disabled on: View>Choose Details
Anyone know how to hack it?