"Show View Options" is missing

I had all the icons on my desktop at work set to a fairly large size because it comes in handy when I'm doing photoshop stuff to be able to see a large preview of the icon. I was working on it this morning as normal, then left work to go on a shoot, and when I came back someone else had logged into the other acct on the computer.
I logged them out, and logged back in as me and now my desktop icons are really small, and when I go to "View" and "Show View Options" to try and change the size back, the "Show View Options" is no longer in the "View" menu. Nor is it in the "Finder" window itself when I click the little "gear" icon. It's just simply not there. I have NO idea what happened. It was working fine this morning. I don't know if someone else logged in and a new update changed everything, but when I returned, everything was different. This is REALLY annoying for what I do, because I REALLY need to be able to see pictures clearly, and having them this small makes it impossible, and I can't figure out WHY I can't change it back. Anyone????
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Some kind of application that you installed, even if you don't know it did it, changed a setting in the finder preference file.
The solution: Go to home/library/preferences and open com.apple.finder.plist, then scroll to the bottom of the file and you will see and option named: ViewOptions-inmutable, make sure the checkbox is not selected, or that the boolean value is the opposite of the one it has right now. So if it has TRUE change it to FALSE. Save the document and use the CommandOptionEscape combination to see the Force Quit Apps windows, select the finder and click the Relaunch button.

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