Recently my Zen stopped working on my Desktop PC. It wouldn’t accept it as a device in any of the USB drives I plugged it into, although it was listed as unrecognised in device manager, which was very odd. I was able to charge it on my laptop, thankfully, but didn’t want to have to install the software on my laptop to transfer music and such.

Anyway, I set about trying to get it to work this evening, and in the process managed to break Windows detailed view. I’ve come across this problem before, and have never found a way of fixing it. I’m hoping our tech support guy at work will be able to give me some advice on what I can do, aside from reinstalling Windows.

Currently I haven’t made a lot of progress. The Zen is detected on my laptop now, and I can transfer files, but it displays an unnecessary amount if icons in My Computer, and doesn’t detect it properly.

Windows details view problem

Edit – Turns out this isn’t actually a bug – you just have to click “Show in Groups” on the Arrange Icons By menu.