Is Illustrator CC's Smart Guides Intersect label MIA?

I recently upgraded from Illustrator CS5 to the latest Illustrator CC version and I noticed that Smart Guides no longer label intersecting lines... Is there a preference I need to enable for that label to appear as it did on CS5?

It's a tweak to put the ruler origin in Illustrator back the way it was before Adobe changed in CS4.
Example:
In pre-CS5 if you wanted to move an object dimensionally up and the right 1 inch you would select the item, double click on the black arrow tool and and in the Move window you would type "Horizontal 1, Vertical 1" and it would move up and to the right 1 inch. But, in CS5 Illustrator was change from using quadrant 1 to quadrant 4 (similar to how Indesign is) so if you wanted to move the same object up and to the right 1 you would need to enter "Horizontal 1, Vertical -1".
Which means you would always be working in negative space. If you're new to Illustrator you wouldn't even notice this but for "Veterans" this was a bit of pain... so someone out there was cleaver enough to figure out to "tweak" how the ruler interprets the origin and restore Illustrator to use quadrant 1.
The tweak isn't very difficult, but I would not recommend this to novice users:
How to change the ruler origin in Illustrator.
To change the ruler origin (and direction of the Y axis) in CC to be the same as in CS4 and earlier:
Close down Illustrator (you can only change the preference file with Illustrator closed);
This is a global change so you only have to do it once (just as you can undo it once).
Pref file directory is as follows (please note the Library may be hidden):
/Users/<username>/Library/Preferences/Adobe Illustrator Settings/en_US/1
Find and open the Adobe Illustrator Prefs file with Textedit
Find and change the following two bits of code:
/isRulerOriginTopLeft 1 change it to /isRulerOriginTopLeft 0
/isRulerIn4thQuad 1 change it to /isRulerIn4thQuad 0
Close and save the Pref file.
I only use Illustrator 1n OSX so I don't know where the Pref file is stored on Windows. I did not figure this out and I do not take any credit for this tweak. ***Mod at your OWN RISK***

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http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

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5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (follow the link with that name, Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy, Item 15) applies to CC, CS6, and maybe CS5);
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http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

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