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Hi Don, any chance you could get us the capability to toggle the caption of thumbnails on the fly with immediate affect (XYplorer.ini setting [Thumbs] "ShowCaptions"). It's changeable via getkey/setkey, but obviously it doesn't have immediate affect unless we save it and exit without saving. There are many instances which arise when I could care less to see the captions and others situations where it's important to see them. It's a pain and not worth the trouble to go into configuration to change the setting (which does have immediate affect) but it's not work the the trouble. If I could set a key or key combination to accomplish it quickly and on the fly, I'd use it often. Thanks.

It's Ctrl+Plus (numpad), iirc.

Wow, I must be getting old (because I am) and in the back of my mind I thought I had done it before. I was trying ctrl-shift-numpad+/- which sizes the column for tiles, but does nothing for thumbnail view. I should have put this in Questions. I should delete this embarrassing post. Thanks Marco.

As a side note to myself and maybe others too. I must remember to check "Keyboard Shortcuts" before asking a question like this. I checked "List all Commands" but obviously that isn't enough for questions like this one.

It's Ctrl+Plus (numpad), iirc.

Didn't even know before that this existed. Glad I do now! klownboy while you may have thought you post "embarrassing" it taught many of us something new.

Thanks aurumdigitus. I'm glad the post wasn't a total waste.

i must not have noticed that CNTRL + number pad + was set to anything because mine is set to View Thumbnails #1. I have been searching for a few hours on here and the help file and cant find a shortcut key for the Show Captions. So when im in thumbnail view i can keep the name titles hidden for a short time until i find the certain image and i can bring them back. I already have the one to overlay captions instead but its still hard to get through images because the name is on top of the image. Is there a way to do this? or get it back if i changed it?

Ctrl Numpad+ serves a dual role. In column views it autosizes columns now; in thumbnail view it will cycle caption display on and off.

First remove your own Customized Keyboard Shortcut for viewing thumbnail #1. Actually, just change it to something else other than Ctrl Numpad+. Then in the same Tools > Customized Keyboard Shortcuts menu, go to the View category and then scroll to "Autosize Columns Now". Press the new keyboard assignment for that command Ctrl Numpad+. Make sure you "assign" the new keyboard assignment. Now if you're in a thumbnail viewing mode Ctrl Numpad+ will display or remove captions. In a detail view it will Autosize Columns.

Show captions is shown in the right click menu for the "Views" toolbar button when you are in a thumbnail view. And by the way, there is a command ID for show captions, CID #372 if you'd rather use that in a one-line script or menu.