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I don't know if this is possible for the deskop. &nbsp;For normal explorer windows I usually just choose List from the View menu so it won't truncate.
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I don't know if this is possible for the deskop.  For normal explorer windows I usually just choose List from the View menu so it won't truncate.

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Good answer since I spent all day yesterday searching for the answer and came to basically the same conclusion as the response by MFalcon. &nbsp;Anybody have any ideas on how to show more then two lines of text in the icon description?
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Good answer since I spent all day yesterday searching for the answer and came to basically the same conclusion as the response by MFalcon.  Anybody have any ideas on how to show more then two lines of text in the icon description?

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Hi-<br />
I would like to see the full text description of an icon on the Windows<br />
NT 4.0 desktop. &nbsp;Currently, NT will truncate the text description if its too long.<br />
How can I see the entire text description of icons in Windows NT?
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Hi-
I would like to see the full text description of an icon on the Windows
NT 4.0 desktop.  Currently, NT will truncate the text description if its too long.
How can I see the entire text description of icons in Windows NT?

Prevent icon text from truncating

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