Are you know Windows Explorer ?
Windows Explorer is an application that is part of the Microsoft Windows operating system since Windows 95 that runs on top of the Windows operating system and provides a graphical user interface for accessing the file systems, though is not strictly essential to the running of a Windows computer. It is the component of the operating system that presents the user interface on the monitor and enables the user to control the computer. It is sometimes referred to as the Windows GUI shell, or simply “Explorer”.
1. Keyboard and mouse shortcuts:
* Open any folder and press F3. This will bring up the Find Files dialog box for that folder.
* Press Start+TAB key combination just once. Now, pressing TAB repeatedly will allow you to jump between various areas of the desktop, such as the desktop proper, taskbar, system tray, quicklaunch toolbar, and Start button.
* When you drag a file with the right mouse button, you will be presented with an option to move or copy the file when you drop it elsewhere.
* If you drag a file from some location and hover it over a folder that is minimized on the desktop without dropping it, then that folder will spring open allowing you to drop the file there.
* If you drag a shortcut and place it over the Start button without dropping it, then the Start menu will spring open and you can navigate to your special program groups and drop it there.
* Sometimes, when you have many programs open and you use the Alt+TAB combination to switch to another program, it does not switch. In this situation, press the Start button twice.
* Press Alt+F4, to close a program. If no program is open, then it functions like a Shutdown command.
* Pressing Alt+Enter after selecting an item will bring up its properties box.
* Pressing Start+Pause will bring up the System Properties of your computer.
2. Add Extra the Send To Menu Options:
Open the SendTo folder create shortcuts to the programs and folders that you commonly use. My suggestion is to have shortcuts for the Desktop, My Documents, IrfanView, and Subhash VCDPlayer. When you use the Send To menu option on a file, it will be opened by the relevant program or copied to the relevant folder.
3. Adding Extra Context Menu Options:
Usually, a certain file type can be opened with many programs. However, the file type's right-click menu may have option for just one or two programs. So, why not add some new options for other programs? Here is how you create a context menu option for the MP3 file type so that their files can be opened by Subhash VCDPlayer. Go to Folder Options. Click on File Types tab. From the list under Registered File Types, search for and select MP3 Format Sound. Now click on Advanced. In the Edit File Type window, click on New. In the New Action window, enter Open with Subhash VCDPlayer in the text box under Action and "C:\Program Files\Subhash VCDPlayer" "%1" (including the quotation marks) in the Application used to perform action. Here, the ampersand symbol '&' is placed before the 'S' in Subhash VCDPlayer so that 's' becomes the hot key in the context menu. Use the Edit button to modify any existing settings. Exercise caution with the choice of the program. If the program and the file type are incompatible, results can be unpredictable. See screenshot.
4. Resize Explorer Columns:
Press Ctrl+Plus to resize columns to best fit the contents. Do not use this trick in the Temporary Internet Files folder though; super-bad news if you frequent this folder to manually pick out files.
5. Folder Options: Customizing the Windows Explorer is done via the Folder Options. To access this,
* In Windows Me/2000: From the menu, choose Tools » Folder Options.
* In Windows 9x: From the menu, choose View » Folder Options
To move between the different tabs, press the Ctrl+TAB key combination or just use the mouse.
6. Setting the default view:
There are five types of views available
* Large Icons
* Small Icons
* List
* Details
* Thumbnails
You can have the same view for all Explorer windows. Open any folder and choose the type of view that you want from the toolbar. If you were to choose the Details view, then adjust the column sizes. Then, go to Folder Options and in the View tab, click on the Like Current Folder.
7. Single-Click To Run Applications:
Normally, to select a file you single-click and to run you double-click. You can change this to hover for select and single-click to run. Go to Folder Options. Here, in the Click items as follows section, check the Single-click to open an item and Underline items only when I point at them.
8. Expanding and Collapsing Folder Tree Branches: On the folder pane, you can expand a branch by pressing the * (asterisk) key. To collapse a branch, press the - (minus) key.
9. Customized Links Toolbar:
The Links toolbar has shortcuts to several Internet sites that you will never visit. Why not replace them with shortcuts to folders or files in your hard disk or your own choice of Internet sites? Display the Favorites menu, right click on Links, and select Open. In the Links folder that opens, remove the shortcuts that Microsoft has provided and create some shortcuts to your own files and folders in your hard disk or network.
10. Open Links in the Same Window:
When you click on a folder shortcut in the Links toolbar, a new Explorer window is opened. To open the folder in the same window, right click on the shortcut and select Open from the context menu.
11. Removing the Links toolbar:
If you want to remove toolbar from showing up at all, then right click on the Links toolbar, and click on the Links option in the context menu.
12. Favorites:
Rather than having links to Internet websites alone, you can also have links to folder in your disk drives or network in the Favorites menu. Just open these folders and select the Add to Favorites from the Favorites menu. Now, you do not have to dig deep into My Computer or My Network Places. Just selecting the location from the Favorites menu will take you to the folder.
13. Using Favorites in Other Programs:
The above tip can come to good use not just in Explorer windows, but also in other programs such as Word or Excel when you want to open or save files. Just click on the Favorites icon on the left of the Open or Save As dialog boxes.
14. Customising the Toolbar:
In Windows Me/2000/XP, you can customise the toolbar with your own choice of buttons. For this, right click on the toolbar and select Customize from the context menu.
15. Suggested toolbar buttons:
My suggestion for buttons for the customized toolbar is
* Back
* Forward
* Separator
* Refresh
* Separator
* Cut
* Copy
* Paste
* Separator
* Copy To
* Move To
* Separator
* Delete
* Separator
* Undo
* Separator
* Properties
* Folder Options
* Views
* Separator
* Up
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