I've looked at Speech recognition wasn't running. So I looked into the Ease of Access settings and it wasn't set to run at startup. So, to make sure I wasn't missing anything I enabled it, restarted the computer and then checked to see if the ON and OFF's were still there. They were. Disabled the settings I've changed and it's still there. Next suggestion Bit odd that you have had the same problem but with something that was enabled. I don't even know what to search on Google as I'm not sure what they're called apart from ON and OFF's!!

What happens if you do Restpre Defaults on the General Tab of Folder Options?

Unfortunately nothing! I think I've restored all the default settings I possibly could. Next step would be to restore the computer to factory settings...something which I'm not really keen on doing for something so small, yet so annoying!

http://www.computing.net/answers/windows-7/disable-o...

Haha brilliant! Not that I was using the magnifier, and never have, but turned it on and then turned it off and it went! Thank you so much!

Now, to the second problem, why does "Arranging by Date Modified" make the files disappear inside a folder? Have tried restoring the bags as one user suggested but that hasn't done the problem.

Once again, thank you for all the help.

Try right clicking in any bit of the white area on the right hand side of an open window and select Group by > None

Try creating a system backup and include personal folders. Create new account(s), delete old accounts and then transfer files back in from backup.

Unfortunately, when arranging by "Date modified" is selected, the group by does not appear. Looks like I shall try the last resort before restoring, which is to create another user!

OK this didn't work either! Any more suggestions? I'm really stumped by this one?