For whatever reason, sooner or later we all have someone or something mess around with our keyboards and create ‘interesting’ results. With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post has a simple and elegant way to help a frustrated reader restore his desktop icon text back to the default appearance.
Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites.
Screenshot courtesy of Lucius Hipan (SuperUser).
The Question
SuperUser reader Lucius Hipan wants to know how to restore the default appearance of the text for Windows 10 desktop icons:
How do you restore (or change) the default appearance of the text for Windows 10 desktop icons?
Note: Trying Ctrl + Mouse Wheel did not help.
The Answer
SuperUser contributor Jonno has the answer for us:
Have something to add to the explanation? Sound off in the comments. Want to read more answers from other tech-savvy Stack Exchange users? Check out the full discussion thread here.
Since there has been a bit of interest in this, Ctrl + Shift + number (listed below) produces different views when used on any folder (including the Windows Desktop).
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This has been tested and works on Windows 10, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012/2016. Keep in mind that the hotkey may vary between editions as others here have pointed out that it is Ctrl + Alt + number on Windows Server 2016 (TP4 – Simplified Chinese), for example.
