Control Panel Home does not (and never did) show 20 or more folders in the view you are talking about. As well, you cannot change the size of the icons. Control Panel Home displays the following main categories (and a few sub categories under each):

System and Maintenance, Security, Network and Internet, Hardware and Sound, Programs, User Accounts and Family Safety, Appearance and Personalization, Clock, Language and Region, Ease of Access and Additional Options.

 

Control Panel Classic View does have many more icons and you can customize the display.

 

 

In Classic View, any customizations are accessed through the "View" menu item.

As freakish as this may sound to you, I assure you Control Panel did, for a period of two weeks, show all Control Panel categories in a row and column display.  I am not halucinating.  I hope others who may have had the same experience will reply.

 

Would you describe how to customize Control Panel in Classic View?  This might convince me I am wrong about the row and column display I associated with Control Panel Home display.

 

Jim

I don't have access to the View menu item nor the Organize and Burn menu items.  I don't have the line at the top showing these options for Control Panel as I do for other Folders.

 

Jim 

Yes, this what I have been looking for and is the default setting I had when I first started up the new Inspiron. 

 

Thanks for the help and you, also, Rebel9.

 

Jim

"I don't have access to the View menu item"

 

What happens if you double click Folder Options, View tab and select "Always show menus" ?