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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 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...

I’m experiencing this odd and selective issue of options missing from folder context menu, under the choice New in most folders. Certain folders seems to have all the options as should. Down's a pic of a usual situation and the rare occasion of full menu, with Finnish OS. Link Removed A quick...

Hi I was messing around with how to use Agent Ransack to search and then add files to Dropbox. I wanted to make a test folder to try the process on so I didn't have to delete them afterwards, and I found that I don't know any way to add a folder to the Send to option on the right click menu...

i am very familiar wit the tools>folder options>view>show hidden files, folders, operating system files /uncheck ALL hidden restrictions/display full size and path/always show menus/show drive letters these settings are among the first on a long list of user mods i alter to begin with...

Hi Folks. I'm hoping I can find a way to modify this behaviour, if only to save my beady cataract filled eyes some work. When I crawl through the Folder-Views of my HDD, any highlighting I can manage will be a pale blue background. I would really like to change this background feature to some...

[SOLVED][File Explorer]how to keep multiple windows open ? Is there any way in doing this automatically without right click> open in a new window and when you click on diferent folders for the current open one not closing? SOLVED : folder options

Icons in my folders keep reverting to Details view (Change Your View > Details) instead of Large Icons choice, which is what I want as default. It's not a consistent thing, though; sometimes I re-open folder and it's still Large Icons, sometimes it has gone back to Details view. Any suggestions?

I'm in desperate need of help! Windows explorer crashes with the error message "Windows Explorer has stopped working" whenever I click on any folder that has a RAW image file (.CR2) or a TIFF/PSD image file in it. It then shuts down and restarts. It only happens with these large image...