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Customizing Windows Explorer

You will likely be spending a lot of time with Windows Explorer over the years, so customizing it to your liking will make you more efficient and more productive, and setting up Windows Explorer to suit your style should serve to remove just a bit of the drudgery of day-to-day file maintenance.

This tutorial takes you through a few of my favorite Windows Explorer customizations.

Following these sections:

  • Returning the Menus to Their Rightful Place

  • Changing the View

  • Viewing More Properties

  • Turning On File Extensions, Stopping Delete Confirmations

  • Running Explorer in Full-Screen Mode

  • Exploring the View Options

  • Moving User Folders

  • Taking Ownership of Your Files

  • Running Custom Searches

  • Using Natural Language Queries

In this tutorial:

  1. Returning the Menus to Their Rightful Place
  2. Changing the View
  3. Viewing More Properties
  4. Turning On File Extensions
  5. Stopping Delete Confirmations
  6. Running Explorer in Full-Screen Mode
  7. Exploring the View Options
  8. Moving User Folders
  9. Taking Ownership of Your Files
  10. Running Custom Searches
  11. Using Natural Language Queries