Explorer Windows blurs files

Windows7 to my wife is having some weird problems. For some time that the file icons have changed spontaneously - for example the folder icons take on the appearance of the icons of file and folder icons lose their specificity of program (Word documents, PDFs, Excel spreadsheets all show areas of white with black dots).

But now, he's got a lot worse. She opened a folder (Documents\kfiles home\Pollinator Paradise\Invoices) to search for an invoice; many files (word documents, pdf files) Bill were now in the parent folder). She had done nothing to move these docs.

What's wierder, is that it has the files stored on Carbonite... and the Carbonite backup appears intact. The Bills are in the folder of invoices.

Someone has an idea of what's going on? I'm about to do a wipe and reinstall but this will simply to reproduce?

In case anyone else has this problem, I found the answer in the thread http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/windows-explorer-not-showing-sub-folders-that/2e0013d0-d17e-4d33-b977-801ef5107dc3

Basically, it's an also: Windows Explorer window has a (rather discreet) drop-down list at the top right, allowing you to "reorganize by" various attributes of the file. If get you what anyone other than (default) folder it apparently of trawls to boom in all subfolders and reorganizes the files by name, author or whether, not taking account of the limits of file.

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