Desktop view has become the view of a folder

hput3 said:

Running windows 10 for several months but only recently the main desktop view when computer comes onhas acquired the look of a folder only with the normal desktop colors. That is, there is white band across the topwith such things as

`| name | Size | Item Type | Date modified |'
With columns under the headings shown. I must have inadvertently hit some kind of setting or other. I hope this forum allows attachments as I am attaching a small screen shot of just a chunk of my desktop that shows the stuff I described above.

I hope someone recognizes what has happened

That view you are seeing can be invoked with Ctrl+Shift+6 while mouse focus is on the desktop.
Right click on the desktop and choose your default view.

Change Folder View Layout in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Customization Tutorials

Edwin said:

That view you are seeing can be invoked with Ctrl+Shift+6 while mouse focus is on the desktop.
Right click on the desktop and choose your default view.

Change Folder View Layout in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Customization Tutorials

Thanks for the help.
But something is still screwy here. Under the right click menu the item to show desktop icons appears to be
what is causing this.

If I right click as directed and un-check `show desktop icons'.. then there is not an icon to be seen, But up until a few days ago I had desktop icons but did not have the folder looking view I posted about. if I choose to check `show desktop icons' then I have icons but also the column nonsense ... Is there not something in between where you can see desktop icons but not the folder view, columns and such?
Until very recently I had such a view, icons but no folder columns. Is this the result of a recent change.

Being curious I tried Ctrl+Shift+6 and got the exact look @hput3 showed in his initial post.
I then selected View / Medium icons and got a normal desktop with all icons on the left. I then had DesktopOK restore my icon layout and I thought all was well.

Unfortunately, now every once in a while (have not tried to figure out the lenght of time yet) all the icons get smushed back to the left side again and I need to have DesktopOK put them back.

I'd like to figure out what is causing this. Anyone have any ideas?

Edit: Not sure but it may have been caused by selecting Medium icons instead of Small icons which is what I normally use.

Nope, that wasn't the cause. It's whenever the Desktop refreshes or if I right click on the Desktop and select Refresh, the icons all go to the left.

Any idea how to fix this?

Edit: now it just happened for no visible reason. No refresh or anything, icons just jumped to the left.

This has to have been caused by doing the Ctrl+Shift+6 but I can't figure out what happened. The Desktop still appears to be a Desktop folder, not just a normal folder and I have view set to Medium again. The problem did occur when I had it set as Small.

Unfortunately I've tried all of those things. I think I'll try creating a new account and see if the problem show sup there or not.

BTW: This is not a new problem, been happening to people since Windows 8 from what I've seen doing Google searches. No definitive fix found yet other than reinstall, which I am not going to do. Maybe when the next major update (Win 10 Creator Edition) is release I'll reinstall if needed.