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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Password protected Excel file on usb drive file behaving strangely when clicked
Nothing unusual at first glance - a password-protected Excel file on a usb stick. Previously, put the stick in the usb port, double-click the file and enter the password to work on the file.
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Windows 10 limits my file name to LESS than the standard 256 [duplicate]
The entire filename in question is only 207 characters long. I just want to add a "1" to the front of it, and it will not allow me to type anything into it.
I have tried the following:
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explorer.exe freezing when right clicking desktop with 2 monitors
Since I added a second monitor to my computer, when right clicking the desktop and trying to bring the context menu, the desktop and all other explorer.exe windows will freeze for ~5 seconds before ...
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Windows explorer is in an infinite crash loop after installing a MS Store App
I'm running Windows 11 23H2.
I installed this AutoHotKey port from the MS store:
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nq8q8j78637?hl=en-gb&gl=US/
Immediately after installing, my windows explorer ...
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Cannot copy to a folder after opening it using a hyperlink in OneNote
This is a bit of a weird issue that I haven't been able to find any information on. I use one note to manage some file locations to some network drives. For some reason I have started having an issue ...
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Enable Sort by Date Modified for all Win 10 Picture Folders
Is it possible to modify the registry or something to make Sort by Date Modified available as a default option for sorting image folders across everything in Windows?
I can enable it one by one folder ...
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Folder Shortcut Infotips don't Display Target Folder Info
How to display the same infotip as the original folder in the folder shortcuts infotip? I'm aware of how to add properties to shortcut infotips via Regedit, but this approach only allows 7 properties (...
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Disable the VS Code preview pane integration in Windows Explorer
Whenever I select a file while the preview pane is active, VS Code tries to display it. How can I get rid of this integration? I searched around but strangely didn't see any trace of this feature ...
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Windows Explorer selected file or folder highlight is very bright
I just bought a new laptop and I am still setting things up and I came across a very irritating feature in Windows File Explorer. Whenever I select a folder or file in the Explorer, the highlight ...
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Right clicking caused windows to corrupt
This has happened 3 or 4 times now
This time I right clicked on my desktop and everything got a white faded out look. Task manager showed Exploere.exe was not responding and rebooting take me to the ...
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Fairly new computer, windows 10 pro, not able to open cmd in a specific path by typing cmd in the address bar of file explorer
I used to be able to do this on my laptop. But now I have a desktop and when I try this, it just shows C:\>
instead of being in the path I want it to be in. I have no idea how to fix this or where ...
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Sorting Windows Explorer's file checkboxes output
I'm writing a rough .cmd batch to do an operation with a few files (4 or 5) in Windows. I want to mark the desired files in Explorer's checkboxes, and drag-and-drop them to the batch file, that will ...
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What could be causing pics and vids transferred from an iPhone 11 to a Windows 10 laptop via Explorer to occasionally have 0 bytes after the transfer?
I copy some photos and videos from an iPhone 11 to my laptop running Windows 10 via Windows Explorer. The iPhone Is connected via a lightening to USB-C cable.
From time to time, the copied photos and ...
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Windows sort folders differently now, and I would like the old behavior
Windows used to always show the subdirectories (aka folders) first, regardless of sort order. It seems that several years ago, this was changed. I would like the original behavior where folders are ...
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How to right click mouse without focusing an item underneath cursor in File Explorer window?
I want to achieve that even if there is an item underneath cursor.
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How to stop windows file transfer consuming all network bandwidth
When I initiate any file transfer from my laptop, over wifi, to my network drive, immediately all other network traffic is interrupted until the file transfer is complete.
For example, if I am ...
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How to get Windows always prompt an "open with" dialog?
As said, I want my Windows to always send me to "Open With" dialog, when I try to open a file.
There is a similar XPosed module for Android, named Kill Domain Verification, but it's working ...
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How to Display "Keywords" Property in Windows File Explorer's Details View Columns?
Following this post, I have a PowerShell script that uses ExifTool to add metadata to PDF files. Specifically, it adds a tag to a PDF's "Keywords" property. The script is available here on ...
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Unable to Add Tags to Files in Windows: Missing "Tags" Property in Details Tab
Following this Tweet, I'm trying to organize my files by adding tags in Windows, as outlined in these instructions. However, I've encountered an issue where the "Tags" property does not ...
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How Can I Customize the Categories and Items in the Windows 10 File Explorer Navigation Pane?
I'm looking to modify the "Navigation Pane" in Windows 10's File Explorer to better suit my workflow. I've attached a screenshot of the current state of my Navigation Pane. I want to add new ...
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windows 10 - strange explorer folder behavior based on folder name
I don't even know what to call this, but
If I create a folder in a specific path ~/sync/dev
The title bar changes and becomes white when entering this folder:
entering dev
outside of dev
I don't know ...
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Windows explorer does not show tooltips on hover for files/folders
This happens on both Windows 11 and Windows 10 (I've got two computers with the same problem). For some reason, Windows explorer will not show any tooltips when hovering over files/folders in explorer ...
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How can I change the " - Shortcut" suffix on shortcuts in Explorer Win11
Now shortcuts has " - Shortcut" as a suffix.
I'd like to change it. I'd also like to put it in front.
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When copying 10ks of files, rarely a copy is larger and zero filled to the next block
I have an issue that sometimes occurs when copying data from SD/CF cards to internal drives, but also manifests when backing up a large archive of photos to external drives. Files are copied using ...
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search for partial filenames in windows 11 explorer not finding items
I am trying to search my webapps directory to find which versions of a jar I am using.
If I search for the full name (below) it finds 8 files.
jersey-atom-abdera-1.19.4
If I search for the name ...
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How do I diagnose the Explorer.exe freeze on Win11?
Recently Windows 11 on my HP laptop started having weird explorer.exe issues. It seemingly randomly freezes the taskbar or doesn't render it at all. When it happens, I am unable to restart the machine ...
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Windows' File Explorer "Map Network Drive" generates an HTTP OPTIONS request that is unauthorized
We are developing a WebDAV server in Java that we would like to serve a Windows' File Explorer client. I can run the following curl command that gives a good response:
>curl -i -X OPTIONS http://...
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Windows Explorer integration of a shared OneDrive/Sharepoint folder without an account
With OneDrive/Sharepoint (please excuse my conflating of them), it is possible to create a shared folder, which can be set to "Anyone with the link can edit".
Thus, it is possible to share ...
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webp files not treated as "image" type in Windows Explorer context menu
I am trying to add custom items to the Windows Explorer context menu in Windows 10 & Windows 11 for image files. I want the custom items to appear (only) for all image types. As far as I can tell ...
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Flashes in Windows Explorer and Random Restarts of the Taskbar (Windows 10)
I have a Dell Precision 5540 with Core I7-9850H 32GB Ram 512GB SSD NVIDIA Quadro T1000 4GB 15.6″ Inch FHD running Windows 10 22H2.
Recently, I have been noticing flashes in Windows Explorer and random ...
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How can I get rid of the File Explorer folder name dropdown?
When I use File Explorer, I often get a dropdown below the folder field.
This dropdown is annoyingly persistent: It takes multiple clicks to get rid of it so I can access the icons that are hidden by ...
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Unable to access FTP using Windows Explorer [closed]
I've set up an FTP site on an AWS EC2 Windows Server 2022 using IIS. I can successfully connect using FileZilla, and can read and write using that connection.
However, when attempting to access it ...
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In Windows, how do I retrieve the data of which folders I most use?
Windows tracks which folders I use then displays the most used one in Quick Access beneath the pinned items.
How do I retrieve this data?
1508457, 1072785, 885073 do not address this.
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Disable Explorer's music style for folders containing mp3 files
Windows has this annoying feature that uses different Explorer options for folders containing music files like ogg or mp3. It removes the file size, it make the name column extremely narrow and it ...
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View archives in a separate Explorer window?
Using Windows 10 22H2.
Open Windows Explorer and navigate to a .zip or .cab. Double-click the file and Windows displays the files inside the archive as if the archive were a folder. This happens in ...
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Alt + D Not Working In Windows 11 File Explorer
In Windows 10, I frequently use Alt + D to quickly highlight the path to the current folder in Windows File Explorer so it can quickly be copied. It's the same shortcut that can be used to highlight ...
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How do I make the File Explorer dropdown collapse?
I don't know the name of what I'm trying to get to collapse, so I've not been able search to solve my question. I'm sorry, so I'm going to give the excruciating long description which Google/Bing can'...
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Folder names and file names text wrapping in wrong position
File names and folder names on windows 10 - the text wraps down to the next line and it is visually distracting and, frankly, horrible to read.
How do I stop the text from wrapping? Letters of the ...
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Windows 11 Explorer lags for a second when selecting an image
Recently upgraded to Windows 11, noticed that in explorer if I click on an image, it takes about a second, showing the loading circle on my cursor before it fully selects. I noticed during this time ...
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Change the format when renaming multiple files?
In Windows 10/11 File Explorer is it possible to change the format when renaming multiple files?
When renaming multiple files, the result is something like this:
MyFile (1).jpg
MyFile (2).jpg
MyFile (...
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Windows explorer stuck at "items remaining: 0" when copying files
This is a simple issue that I haven't found a fix for months and Google searching is futile.
Sometimes if I copy/move/delete large folders containing many files (think tens of thousands) using Windows ...
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The source window should remain active after dropping an item in another window
I have two windows opened in Windows 10. Whenever I drag a file from one window to another, the window where I drop the item is active.
But I would like to keep the window from which I dragged the ...
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Is there a relatively simple way to create a "view" of a Windows folder?
The "view" is borrowed from DBMS, as in a subset by certain criteria.
I'm trying to copy about 200k files (in a few levels of folders) from one cloud storage provider (mounted as a Windows ...
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Windows "Downloads" folder take an eternity to load
My Downloads folder takes several minutes to load every time, doesn't automatically refresh if files are added to it and if I do hit the Refresh button the process starts over. There are ~100 items in ...
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Add VS Code to default context menu when right-clicking
In Windows Explorer, when I select a directory and right click on it, it opens a context menu. However, to open the directory in VS Code as a new project, I have to click on Show more options, then ...
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Need to change WSL default path in Explorer from \\wsl.localhost\\ to \\wsl$\\
After some update Windows 11 started using by default "\\wsl.localhost" path in explorer instead of "\\wsl$" to access files on WSL disk:
access to WSL files from explorer
So, some ...
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File Explorer CD/DVD default action: disable "install or run program from your media"
When inserting a CD/DVD medium, I already disabled autoplay from within Settings / Devices / Autoplay first and, then, from within Control Panel / Autoplay which is more complete. However, even with ...
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Windows Explorer Search does not find anything on Pictures, Documents, Downloads folders after manually moving them
Search in C:\Users\Komninos\Downloads not showing any results in Windows Explorer.
The quick search is not working for Downloads, Pictures, Documents folders, which are the folders I moved from D:\...
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How to remove Home Gallery from Windows 11 Explorer
I want this section removed from Windows 11 Explorer:
The registry method to remove the key on [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace_41040327] did ...
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How to change file type labels in Explorer using 3rd-party-programs or hacks inside Windows
I want to do this experiment: Change the file type label to something else.
Example:
Lets say there is a "APK" file on the computer. Instead of the file type column saying "APK File&...
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