Sorting and filtering items in an Explorer window
When you select the Details option on the Change Your View pop-up button's slider in an Explorer window, Windows displays column headings such Name, Date Modified, Type, and Size buttons at the top of the display area.
You can use any of these buttons to sort or filter the current contents of any Explorer window. To sort the contents, simply click the button that you want to use in sorting: once to sort the list of folders and files in descending order (Z to A for text and most recent to least recent for dates) indicated by a triangle pointing downward in the middle above the name of the column, and a second time to return the files to their original ascending order (A to Z for text and least recent to most recent for dates) indicated by a triangle pointing upward.
To filter the contents of an Explorer window to just those types of folders and files you want to see, use any of the different buttons (Name through Size) to open the accompanying drop-down menu and then select the check boxes for all the types of folders and files you want displayed.
In this tutorial:
- Computer Management
- Disk Management
- Opening folders on drives in the Computer window
- Mapping a network folder as a local drive
- File, Folder, and Library Management
- Creating new files, folders, and libraries
- Customizing a window's folder options
- Changing how you select and open items
- Creating compressed (zipped) folders
- Extracting files from a compressed folder
- Selecting files and folders
- Copying (and moving) files and folders
- Deleting files and folders
- Renaming files and folders
- Searching for files
- Program Management
- Removing or repairing a program
- Changing the program defaults
- Restart, Sleep/Hibernate, Lock, Log Off, and Shut Down
- Windows 7 Explorer
- Changing the display of an Explorer window
- Sorting and filtering items in an Explorer window