Right, I held those three keys down and I got a choice of 3 ways to do with program preferences use-disable-or delete preferences,I tried each way separately and it didn't do anything..but it worked for someone else in the Steinberg cubase forum I was talking about..
The track controls settings screen was grayed out until I deleted the userpreferences xml. file
Over in Steinberg cubase forums they suggest several ways to fix the problem, I just succeeded with this way..
I took some advice from the Steinberg cubase forums that said to delete userpreferences xml.file..I did it temporarily by deleting the file to the recycle(trash) bin and trying the cubasele8 daw to see if the icons were horizontal and sure enough they were..I'm still going to keep the file...
I've already been informed on another forum about that..it ends up that there is nothing to change back..no presets to delete.no way to change track height or anything..someone over on the Steinberg(cubase) forum let one of the technical people take control of his computer and he got it fixed...
There's no attachment option that I can see..
To explain what they are; there's a little yellow speaker indicating "monitor"..a red "record" dot and a few other automation letters..in the track or project that I will be using, not the editor inspector...
What I did,when or how I don't know but somehow the icons are now stacked instead of horizontal in my project audio tracks(main window)..they were horizontal for years now and I may have reset the preferences and now I cannot customize them back..I asked over in a Steinberg forum but haven't got...
cubase..abelton lite9..traction7..they all run slow or freeze up..
It could be the amount of scanning folders the daw goes through..I have 256gb hdd and 100gb free space..original(I guess but it was refurbished)..