Questions tagged [windows-explorer]
Windows Explorer (renamed to File Explorer in Windows 8) is the file manager that comes with Windows and is not to be confused with Internet Explorer which is Windows' default Web browser.
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Windows 10 Quick access and This PC not being populated
I recently noticed a few times when clicking on either This PC or Quick access in Windows Explorer that the folders are not being populated with icons. The file system seems to be intact, as I can ...
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How do I remove the new Windows 11 File Explorer toolbar
I recently installed Windows 11 and there is a horrible new toolbar in Windows Explorer that mostly just duplicates functions from the toolbar directly above it. Any idea how I can remove the toolbar ...
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Small icons look strange in detail pane in Windows 11 explorer
When I click on a 16x16 icon in Windows 11 file explorer and want to look at the details on the right side, I get a strange preview like this:
This does not happen with a 256x256 pixel image for ...
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Why Windows 11 file-explorer hangs frequently, keeping query registry related to FontSubstitutes?
On my Windows 11 Pro 22H2, the File Explorer is prone to become unresponsive. In severe cases, it freezes after just two or three operations, such as opening a directory or selecting a file. No matter ...
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Windows 10 File Explorer very slow, constantly processing, hanging & crashing. Tried to fix for years, many reinstalls. Do I need to upgrade?
I know this is a long post but only because I have taken great effort to fully describe the problem and that which I have tried to resolve the issue. This problem exists on what is basically a server. ...
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Backup/restore currently open Windows Explorer windows - with national character encoding and supporting tabs
The extended script provided in this thread Backup/restore currently open Windows Explorer windows does not seem to support filenames with national characters like "æøåäöü" ect. The ...
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How to quickly locate a file named "666.mp3" with keyboard in Windows Explorer?
If you start typing in an Explorer window without focusing on a text box, Explorer will move the highlight to the file with a matching prefix name. I rely on this very much as it does not require me ...
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Loading of documents in Windows Explorer takes long time
Recently, my Windows Explorer is really slow whereby a green loading bar is visible for a long time.
I tried multiple options such as:
a refresh via the task manager
rebuilding index
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Preserving Quick Access Pins and Libraries with Robocopy
So I've had an external drive that I kept plugged into my laptop that later started having connection issues. I decided to use Robocopy to transfer the files over to a new drive with (effectively) the ...
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Add buttons to Windows Explorer to automate tasks
Is there a way to add a custom button to the Windows Explorer GUI so I can automate some tasks in folders, eg. to automatically create a new subfolder with the current date as its name?
The button ...
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Search videos by exact length under Windows File Explorer?
is there a way to search videos by exact length under the Windows File Explorer? (i.e. length:00:31:42)
There is a command "length:" but it only supports values like "Very Short, Short, ...
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Why does Windows' File Explorer show a User\Music folder when dir /a says no such folder exists?
For user Doug, Windows 10's File Explorer shows a Users\Doug\Music folder, as expected. However, dir /a (run as administrator) does not show this folder. How can this be?
My motivation is that Users\...
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Explorer crashes when double-clicking an MP4 file
Windows Explorer crashes on my HP laptop (Windows 10), when double-clicking on MP4 files copied from my trail camera. This has only started happening recently, so perhaps it's related to a Windows ...
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How can I search for a directory only under a specified directory and nowhere else?
My laptop has two drives, my regular hard drive and a smaller SSD.
Somewhere on my computer is a folder that is just called “R” that contains code I have was working on a few weeks ago. I can not find ...
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How can I get Windows file explorer to behave the way I want?
I have a set of behaviors I would like to have Windows 11 File Explorer to have, very different from the behaviors it now has. I would like to know if there is a way to make it do some or all of these ...
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Finding folders on PC with fewer than five files inside [closed]
Is it possible to find folders that contain fewer than five files inside?
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How to multiselect individual files by keyboard in Windows 11
In all previous versions of windows, multiple files could be selected in Windows Explorer by holding the Control key, using the arrow keys to highlight each file and hitting Space over each file you ...
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Is it possible for a file to occupy a fraction of a byte?
I connected my GoPro on my laptop running Windows 10. I browse its files via Windows Explorer. I selected all files in a folder, click on Properties, and I see that the number of bytes is a float, not ...
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Windows 10 cut file stops working, copy works (with one issue), move works
Total issues I can see:
if I Ctrl + X after selecting a file, the file icon "grays" for a fraction of a second and then
"un-grays" immediately
same if I right-click and select &...
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Is there an FTP interface for Windows Explorer which uses "incoming" and "outgoing" folders?
I'm trying to support someone with queries about an old FTP server we have. On the server we have a directory specifically set aside, and various files are both read from and written to this directory....
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Explorer.exe memory leak when miniatures' performance Options is checked
For the last few days, I've had a very weird problem where Explorer.exe starts eating all of my system memory (16GB) after opening an Explorer window. If I restart the process and don't open any ...
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Exclude a subfolder from symlink?
I have a folder I want to symlink (note that this doesn't have to be a symlink specifically, a junction or similar also works) somewhere. In that folder, there are a couple of subfolders and a bunch ...
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Windows Explorer - Using icons (not thumbnails) for specific files
How can I force Windows to use icons (not preview thumbnails) only for specific file types?
For example, I want to use an icon for all PPTX files, but a preview thumbnail for all PNG files.
The ...
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Windows 10 Explorer: can't distinguish if a file is selected or not on mouse hover
On Windows 10 Pro 22H2, I noticed that:
mouse hover over a Deskotp item, it will be displayed with a light grey rectangular border
click on the item, the item color / border stays exactly the same, ...
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How to edit a remote desktop connection on Windows 11?
I've recently "upgraded" from Windows 10 to Windows 11.
On Windows 10 I could right-click on a RDP file and there's an "edit" option on the context menu, but that's gone on Windows ...
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Windows 10 Open File dialog box. How can the folders not be displayed?
In Windows 10 Standard Open File dialog box, I've set the View to display large icon thumbnails by date order.
Is there a way to prevent any sub folders from being displayed?
In Window's File Explorer ...
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Windows 10 File Explorer, Is there a way to amend thumbnail size?
In Windows 10 File Explorer/Standard Open file dialog > View > Large Icons.
Is there a way to amend this thumbnail size? Large icons are too small & Extra large are too large.
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Remove "Start back up" in File Explorer new Windows 11 update
Since the new update that rolled out a few weeks ago, I have this "Start back up" message in my File Explorer:
It has been suggested to exit onedrive but I still want to use onedrive, I ...
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Windows 11 - File Explorer - Right Click menu with keyboard shortcuts
I don't know how I made the extra letters show up here. I was right clicking and double right clicking but it isn't consistent.
How do I make this menu show up? And what is it?
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How do I remove this folder from the Windows Explorer navigation bar?
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I want to remove this "games" folder from the Navigation Bar, but I can't come up with anything to do. I have tried going through properties and using right click, but I couldn't ...
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Windows File Explorer (+ other applications) "Application not found"
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In Windows File Explorer I cannot navigate to a folder in the main view. If I double-click a folder or if I right click and then select 'open', I get an error saying "Application not ...
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Is it possible to make a Windows program's browse dialogue (not just explorer windows), default to quick access shortcuts?
In windows, there's a folder option that lets you change the default behavior of the left pane, to default to either "This PC" or "Quick Access".
The problem I have is, this doesn'...
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What makes explorer.exe unable to start?
I install an update yesterday and now explorer.exe is unable to start. I can still access Task Manager, and from there I can open other programs. However explorer.exe doesn't start, nor yield any ...
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Windows Explorer: change default columns of the media-variant set of columns (photos, videos...)
When a folder contains photos and videos, explorer switches automatically which columns are displayed. I'm not questioning here whether I like the feature or not, so let's assume I liked that feature.
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Remove "AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition" from Windows Explorer context menu
When I right click inside a folder in Windows Explorer, there is an option called "AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition":
(This option only appears when I right click on an empty space inside ...
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Restoring the new Windows 11 context menu
Awhile back I did a registry hack (don't remember what it was 😔) to stop using the new Windows 11 context menu.
How can I restore the new context menu?
How can I subsequently disable the new context ...
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"Application not found" when opening folder
I was experimenting with different file explorers and made one of them the default one (I believe it was One Commander). The software was since deleted so I cannot open the folder because there is no ...
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File explorer does not automatically refresh changes when connected to WSL file system
On Windows 11 with WSL 2 installed, if I open the WSL file system in Windows File Explorer by using the provided \\wsl.localhost UNC path, I am able to browse all my files on the WSL file system.
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Windows 11 path too long issue persists after regedit
I followed the recommended steps to solve the path too long issue on Windows 11 (Insider Preview v23H2, b25951.1010); nevertheless, the problem persists, as I still get error path too long when ...
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Why search in file explorer finds nothing?
I open a window of file explorer in Windows 10
In the window I can clearly see a file with a name. Let's say [THEfile].txt
However, when I write in the search place to the upper right "THE", ...
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Windows 10 Explorer no longer starting
I've been having 2 issues with Windows 10 for a few weeks:
The Security Center is not able to start and keeps terminating unexpectedly
The Windows Defender Quarantine folder has 700MB of files that ...
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Unknown icon on Windows 11 thumbnails
I don't know how it happened, but now on my Windows 11, I see strange thumbnail icons on files in my C:\Users folder and all subfolders inside. I don't see that on other partitions/drives or locations....
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Windows Double Click Detection (UseDoubleClickTimer)
In Windows there is a way to enable single click mode for Explorer
For ages there used to be a registry setting
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\UseDoubleClickTimer
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Unexpected behavior of Windows 11, when creating or renaming a folder, delayed browser response time
I have an HP gaming 16 laptop with windows 11 home, the hardware is not so bad core i5 of 10th generation, 16 gb of ram and a HDD accompanied by intel optane.
HDD and Optane is around 95% healt by ...
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How to sort by extension instead of type in Windows Explorer?
I use Google Chrome to open svg and pdf files but Windows Explorer sorts them as the same type:
Can I somehow sort by extension instead? (.svg, .pdf)
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Windows explorer takes at least 1 minute to show shortcuts each time I open it
At some point a few weeks ago, when I'm opening a new explorer or even a new tab, explorer takes ages to become fully operational. In the meantime it looks like this:
I can type a path, browse, etc.. ...
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Open specific file in Microsoft Teams straight from File Explorer? (Not in SharePoint, nor Office)
The title explains what I'm trying to do. I've tried this by selecting a file on my synced OneDrive/SharePoint, selecting "Open With", and choosing Teams.exe from the following path: "C:...
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Swapping the contents of 2 drives with Windows Explorer without needing to copy-and-delete?
I have local 2 drives, neither of them my Windows boot drive:
A 2TB HDD, drive letter E:. Contains about 300GB of data.
A 1TB SSD, drive letter F:. Contains about 4GB of data.
I want to swap the ...
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Open network folder in a .bat file
How do I open a network folder with a .bat file?
explorer shell:NetworkPlacesFolder works like wonders in CMD but once I try to implement a path (e.g. \\104pc01-01\c$\), it simply doesnt work and I ...
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How to search only for folders in the search bar = Windows File Explorer Search Box of Windows 10
I wonder what I am doing wrong or whether the search bar has changed. I need to make a search from the search bar of the Windows Explorer that puts out only folders. There is quite some rough research ...
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