Windows Explorer is also responsible for much of the Windows Shell, including the taskbar and desktop icons. While it is not essential to the operation of Windows - you can run applications using the "New Task..." button in the Task Manager, it does make using and managing a Windows based PC much ...
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Adding to New context menu item in Windows Explorer
When I right click within an Explorer window, down in 'New' I of course have the option to create a new folder, text file, etc. there. I would like to add the option of opening a cmd 'black box' ...
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Disable Total Commander Open Folder Window In Explorer
Sometimes, Total Commander opens some folders in Explorer. I don't know the reason, it might be due to some bug in my own autohotkey definitions.
Anyway, how can I disable Total Commander to open ...
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Why might be file copying on Windows Explorer much slower than Command Prompt
When I copy a file in command prompt, it occurs instantly.
But when I copy a file inside Explorer of Windows 7, it waits around 3-10 seconds before starting the copying process.
Also the icons of ...
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Why is incorrect associated icon showing for .MP3 files?
I changed the associated application for playing .MP3 files from VLC Player to GOM Player within Windows. Double-clicking a .MP3 file causes GOM Player to launch (as expected), but the icon still ...
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2answers
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Disable Drag-&-Drop in Windows Explorer (left column only)
I'd like to disable drag-and-drop in Windows Explorer but only on when the source is the left column (directory tree), however.
Better still, I'd like to enable drag-&-drop ONLY when I'm dragging ...
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How can I change the Windows Explorer in Windows 7 to behave like the one in XP?
The Windows Explorer in Windows 7 has got to be one of the worst ones yet, I think only superseded in annoyances by the one in Windows Vista.
Typical sequence of events:
Win+R to open the Run ...
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1answer
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Launching specific sections of the Control Panel from the command line
I am writing a personal application using AutoHotkey to speed up common tasks. One thing I do often is change my desktop background to solid white (for screenshots I post on Super User, as you may ...
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1answer
37 views
Windows Home Server 2011: My Computer and Disk Properties show old Label after rename
I have a Windows Home Server 2011 box (based on Windows Server 2008 R2).
For ease of use I label my data drives with what is on them:
Data (E:) [500 GB SATA] Data Backup (R:) [500 GB USB]
My Data ...
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1answer
31 views
How do I make all descendant folders picture-view folders in Windows XP?
There's a "picture view" for Windows XP folders. I keep creating new folders in a directory and adding pictures to them.
Every time I create a new folder, I have to go through the added action of ...
2
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2answers
55 views
Can you order videos in windows explorer by last played / accessed?
I have a bunch of videos in a folder, I would like to know which ones I have watched and when, so I can revisit old ones or watch ones I have not seen yet etc.
I tried adding date accessed but all ...
2
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1answer
79 views
How to hide window close, minimize and maximize buttons on Windows XP
On Windows XP, is there a way to hide these buttons normally present on each window?
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2answers
360 views
windows folder with millions of files not responding
I am using windows 7 64-bit on q6600 with 4gb ram.
I have a folder with 2 million files which are 10kB on average.
windows 7 explorer stops responding when I open the folder.
how can I overcome ...
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2answers
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Windows File Explorer equivalent for Awesome bar
Firefox has a very handy feature, the Awesome bar:
Just type a few letters of a website’s name or address into the location bar and it will find it for you. And the more you use it, the better it ...
3
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1answer
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Windows explorer sees different file name from cmd
I just got a new computer, and put my old hard drive (which contained Windows) in the new computer to keep my old files. I was successfully able to remove the Windows directory from this drive, but ...
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2answers
137 views
Open folder in Windows Explorer from Cmd
Say if I am navigating some folder in cmd such as E:\dir1\dir2
E:\dir1\dir2>
How can I open the folder quickly in Windows Explorer? Copying the whole path and pasting seems awkward.
There is ...
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1answer
44 views
No Programs, or Windows Explorer shows .FBX files
Nothing, nothing at all shows up when i try to find my .FBX file. And yes. I am sure it is the right place.
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Windows Explorer software that auto-rename files in ascending order
Suppose I have a folder that contain the following files:
001.jpg
002.jpg
003.jpg
004.jpg
005.jpg
After delete the file 002.jpg in a "Windows Explorer" software, the "Windows Explorer" software ...
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Windows 7 Games folder very slow: it takes several seconds to open Games or to select a game
The Windows 7 Games folder is very slow, and it appears to be CPU bound by Explorer.exe. When I open it, the folder takes several seconds to load all of the games. It also takes several seconds to ...
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2answers
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What makes the folder associated with Word or Powerpoint HTML files special?
When Word or Powerpoint saves a file as HTML, it creates a filename.htm file, and a filename_files folder.
What makes this combination of file and folder special? If I delete one, the other is also ...
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How do I hide the address bar in Windows Explorer for Windows XP Professional
I'm using Windows XP Professional. I need to hide the Windows Explorer address bar so that it won't show the username:password@FTP.xxx.net of a link I created.
I need to do this on a particular PC ...
3
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1answer
28 views
Is it possible to create new category of pinned items for a taskbar shortcut like explorer?
When you right click Explorer on the taskbar a list of pinned with 2 categories is shown: Pinned and Most recently used. (I actually disabled the last one)
I was wondering if this is strictly build ...
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1answer
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Missing extension - explorer issue?
In this picture, right at the bottom you can see Files of type:
Then it says Pictures (*.bmp, *.png, *.jpg, *.gif)
My question is, how can I add the extension .jpeg in there?
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1answer
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Windows 7 Explorer.exe incompatibility
On Windows 7 64-bit, the user is getting the following message when Windows logs in:
The program or feature \??\C:\Windows\Explorer.exe cannot start or run due to incompatibility with 64-bit versions ...
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1answer
101 views
Search doesn't work for Windows 7 offline folder
Ever since the My Documents folder was setup for offline use on my new laptop I can no longer use the search box in explorer, neither when I am online nor offline. My admin says this is normal. I ...
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Why am I seeing more than one explorer running at the Task Manager in my Win7?
Why am I seeing more than one explorer running at the Task Manager in my Win7?
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1answer
51 views
Windows 7 preview images won't show
This used to happen before: I open a folder with images and if I have large icons it used to show me small images of what the actual image is,
but now: when I open the folder sometimes it shows me ...
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1answer
23 views
explorer favorites behavior
I have started using the Favorites navigation in Windows 7 Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer). I have two different machines where it behaves differently.
On my laptop if I click a favorite ...
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Adding GMail-like “archive” functionality to Windows Explorer
One of the things I love about GMail is the one-click ability to move files out of my inbox without throwing them out.
What's the best way to add a hook to Windows Explorer (Windows 7) to do the same ...
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1answer
53 views
How To Allow Web Browsing Through Windows Firewall
I suppose this question might seem useless at first glance, but I'm trying to lock down the outbound firewall rules on my PC. My thinking is that if there were any malicious software on my PC, I ...
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3answers
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Restarting explorer does not restore taskbar
I've been having a really annoying problem with explorer in Windows 7. Sometimes I need to restart explorer, for example to help testing software I'm developing.
I know I can stop explorer.exe ...
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1answer
48 views
Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator file preview in Windows Explorer
I'm a designer who deals with a lot of psd and ai files and it's very time consuming to sort through multiple files.
I was wondering if it were possible to use Windows Explorer's file preview ...
4
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1answer
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Windows explorer group by size custom values
Is it possible to change the range of sizes Windows uses for the 'Group by' feature?
Apparently 128MB is Gigantic. Who knew?
Tiny 0 - 10 KB
Small 10 - 100 KB
Medium 100 KB - 1 MB
...
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2answers
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Which shortcut keys are available in Windows Exporer for Windows 7?
In the Windows 7 Explorer, Ctrl + N seems to create a new, duplicate window and Ctrl + F places cursor focus into the search dialog box. What other keyboard shortcuts are available?
Is there one ...
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3answers
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Windows Explorer crashes when loading a folder. That folder is my desktop
I was playing Bastion in windowed mode. One of the controls is right clicking in the general direction you want projectiles to fly. Needless to say, sometimes I right clicked on the desktop ...
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Odd drive under “Other” in Windows Explorer
I have this strange device under Windows Explorer in Windows 7 right now. It's got the generic unknown file type icon, a random hex code, and I can't open it or get any properties on it.
MS ...
3
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1answer
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How can Windows be prevented from automatically redoing a search in the Search Results window?
The problem I have with it is that when you perform a search, Windows keeps spontaneously redoing the search. It seems that the most likely cause is when a file in the list is renamed or deleted ...
3
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1answer
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Custom attributes for files/folders in Windows 7 possible?
Is there any way to tag folders/files in Windows 7 with custom attributes, that would be applicable to any file format (not stored within a file)?
For example, to create artificial folders (allowing ...
2
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Remove or identify Photoshop on Open With List
Problem
When using Windows Explorer's Open With... context menu, many image types show two Photoshop CS5 entries. One is the 32-bit version, the other is the 64-bit version. However, they both use ...
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Adding Buttons to Windows XP Explorer (Shell-Extension?)
I would like to add some extra buttons to the Windows XP Explorer toolbar (specifically, but not limited to file-selection such as Select-All and Invert-Selection). Unfortunately while they are ...
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Windows Explorer image thumbnail previews not showing (Windows 7)
I can't get Windows Explorer to show the thumbnail previews of images no matter what I do.
It used to work but at some point it stopped generating the previews. It doesn't work for any image type ...
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Is there a way to change Windows crasy long line Alpha sort?
I do not know if it is possible but this drives me up the wall.
A) When trying to view my disks/partitions (more than 16) using explorer in "computer" and it has the cool new Disk Used/Free bars, ...
2
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1answer
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Windows7: Changing Backshift Shortcut in Explorer back to upwards?
In XP i used backshift for going one folder upwards.
In Win7 they changed that to Alt+ArrowUp and backshift means now go back in folder history.
Is there some way to use good old backshift for going ...
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3answers
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View the contents of Jars files? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Can you configure Windows to open JAR files like ZIP files without a 3rd party tool?
How i can view the contents of Jar files and enter to it like Zip files on windows 7 ...
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launch a shell from explorer with same working directory
It would be handy if there was a hot key or context menu option that would launch a shell and cd me to whatever directory the focused explorer window is currently viewing.
Anyone have an idea?
...
3
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1answer
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Deleting file in Windows Explorer on a remote machine
I recently discovered that when browsing the file system of a networked machine in Windows Explorer (e.g. \\servername\c$\My Documents\), if you delete a file with a simple Right Click -> Delete, it ...
2
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1answer
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I seriously messed up my explorer.exe
I was trying to change my Windows Explorer appearance using some things like this. This involves replacing system files such as explorer.exe and explorerframe.dll. When I was installing one theme I ...
3
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1answer
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Custom multi-item context-menu entry for Windows Explorer
I'm trying to create a custom context-menu entry for Windows (7) Explorer that will send ALL selected items ton ONE single command.
I've read about MultiSelectModel with a Player value in MSDN Doc ...
3
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4answers
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Hiding files/folders which begin with a full stop (period)
Windows does not use the dot-file convention for hidden files. However, many Windows applications (mostly opensource/cross-platform) use files and folders with this convention. How can I make Windows ...
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1answer
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Arrange videos by date although some aren't in folders?
I have some videos in folders and some aren't in folders so when I want to arrange by "date modified" the ones without folders stay in a bunch at the top in order and the ones in folders stay ...
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Power Service seems linked to continuous cycling of “Windows Explorer Has Stopped Working” post start up of Windows 7 Machine
Ok, this one really has me flummoxed, so I thought I would turn to the world that the StackExchange network and see if I could find some help.
I am currently running a Windows 7 Ultimate N 64 Bit ...
