folder options

File Explorer’s Folder Options is one of those small but crucial control panels that quietly governs how Windows shows files, handles hidden items, and performs searches — and when that panel disappears behind policy or malware it can block simple fixes and customization. This feature guide...

Tooltips — those little pop-up text boxes that appear when you hover over files, folders, desktop shortcuts, or taskbar icons — are designed to give quick context, but for many Windows 11 users they become intrusive and disruptive; this guide explains every practical method to delay, disable, or...

By default, every time you tap that familiar yellow File Explorer icon in Windows, you’re greeted by the “Home” folder—a digital mix of your most recent files and frequently visited folders. It’s as if a virtual butler rummaged through your desk and laid out your latest projects, “just in case...

If you’ve ever found yourself clicking open, close, open, close on a parade of files just to find that one table, picture, or snippet of text, let’s all agree: there must be a better way. Welcome to modern Windows 11, where file previewing in File Explorer isn’t just possible, it’s smart, slick...

W10 ver 22H2 If I go to a Windows 10 folder - all of the jpeg files with have a thumbnail (as do png, tiff etc) Very few DNG files will have a thumbnail (usually none) As folders may have hundreds of files - the thumbnail view is essential to quickly find files without having to open...

Every program I run from file manager to q-dir is sorting windows folder by weeks. I have to manually go to view and then select group by none. Whenever I enter the new folder I have to start the entire process all over again. In file explorer folder options it only gives me the option to reset...

Hello, i recently noticed that my customise folder options are not working anymore and i have to manually change the columns of each folder instead of applying the settings to the folders i want via the customise tab. For example instead of size, date modified etc i want to make folders for...

Are you looking for a perfect guideline to know How to Change File Extension in Windows 10? We are presenting some key ideas to meet your quarries about this. File extension is usually a suffix attached at the end of a file name and determines the application to open that particular one. File...

I would like to know how to disable the automatic expansion of folders when my mouse hovers over them in the navigation pane. I've searched all over the folder options and have searched online, but no one has an answer. Thanks!

In the Win7 Control Panel there was a way to access "Folder Options" and hide the protected OS files. I have now upgraded to Win10 and it shows protected OS files and does not hide the extensions for known file types. I would like for those files to be hidden. I have looked in all the Control...

Hi guys, I've a HP All-in-one Model no: 23-K315na; Win8.1; Fully patched; All Drivers up-2-date; 16GB Ram; 1TB Hard Disk; Free Space 635GB; Pictures folder has 159GB (I'm an amateur Photographer!) Eset Smart Security v8; scanned clean; also scanned with MWB clean PROBLEM: When I open the...

I have no idea how i did this, but while I was trying to change my downloads folder location, I managed to make my desktop the downloads folder. then when I tried to move it back, I somehow linked two folders... Here's a screenshot of my directory folder: If someone knows how to fix this...

Hi, I have written a Database management program, and it runs as an .exe. It has been working fine, but i have just added a backup option so you can can create a backup copy of the database. It has suddenly come to my attention that none of the program is now working. - I have done some...

Hi all. I know how I can force all folders to a specific view, but I wonder if there is a way to force a specific network folder to always display in a certain view for all Win users accessing the said folder? The folder in question is on a file server, accessible via mapped drive, contains a...

I like to use the detailed directory view in Windows Explorer. But something maddening happens in my home directory in Explorer under Desktop\<username>: no matter how much I try to set it to 'Details', any time I return to the folder, it reverts back to 'Medium Icons'. If I access the folder...

So for the past couple days I have been having problem with windows 7 and explorer, Images are icons and not thumbnails. I have the folder options checked to NOT show icons just thumbnails. Now I have NO thumbnail cache.db files, I deleted them with glary utilities since disk cleanup does not...

When I turn on the feature, "Always search file names and contents" my C drive completely fills all available disk space after doing a search. What's going on and how do I remedy this?

Please someone help me how to fix my problem about the file target of all my programs. The operating system of my PC is Windows XP 2002. Last night, I opened the folder options then i forgot what i did (sorry). suddenly, all the programs including microsoft,mozilla firefox,google crome, even...

I am using WIN 7 Ultimate and have a folder (FOLDER-A) containing about 160 .HTM documents and their corresponding FILES folders from documents I have downloaded from the internet. I am trying to sort these by name within the containing folder (FOLDER-A) so that each .HTM document appears next...

When I type at the CmdPrompt "set" then two core response lines are: TEMP=D:\temp TMP=D:\temp So from my point of view the path to the official system wide temporary folder is obviously D:\temp I expected that this folder is automatically protected and hidden in Windows Explorer. BUT...