that is really strange.. could it be you have some unusual non-standard setting for your icon sizes in windows? or some security program that could be doing this?
i did tweak appearance a bit, but its just the same when i reset it to microsofts default settings. i am runing eset but highly doubt that has anything to do with it.
if you switch to small icon detail view in farr do they show then?
nope

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i encountered another problem so ill just ask here: whan i try to run an AVI video it opens with WMP instead MPC-HC (my preferable and associated player for that filetype). is there a fix for that?
thank you for your time