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Fix: Windows explorer crashes or freezes

The Windows Explorer or the File Explorer in the Windows operating system, helps us browse our files, folders and other data on our computer. You may face a problem at some point of time when you find that your Windows [...]

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Enable, Disable checkbox to select items in Windows 7 | 8 explorer

You may have noticed that in Windows Explorer, there are small check-boxes to the left of the file or folder names, that help you select items for carrying out file operations. If you need to select non-consecutive items to carry [...]

3 File Explorer Apps for Windows 8

Now when it is over a month using Windows 8, I am very much satisfied with the UI and the features here. After talking about many good and useful Windows 8 apps, today I will write about very useful File [...]

How to remove items from Frequent Places list from Windows 8 File Explorer

Windows 8 has brought a lot of new features in File Explorer. Someone was asking me the other day, about how to remove the Frequent places list from the File explorer in Windows 8. Frequent places are listed in Windows [...]

How To Remove Computer From Windows 8 Explorer Navigation Pane

Recently we’ve posted the trick o how to remove Network from Windows explorer navigation pane. Today, in this article, I am going to share you same trick for Computer option. The only difference between these two parts of explorer navigation pane is [...]

How To Remove Network From Windows 8 Explorer Navigation Pane

Windows 8 contains a lot of new features while some features are still useless. Showing Network in explorer navigation pane of Windows 8 is also of little use to many. It was there in Windows 7 and it is now there [...]

Disable Open Folder In New Window, In Windows 8 Explorer

Today, when I was browsing my files, I observed that for every folder, in its right-click context menu, there is a option to open it in new window. I have never used this option. Some of you may find it [...]

Change Desktop Windows Metrics and Border Width in Windows 8

Windows 8 offers no settings panel which can help you customize or change Desktop Windows Metrics. In Windows 7 you could access it through Advanced Appearance Settings in the Window Color and Appearance panel. Using this panel, in Windows 7 [...]

Clover 2: Combine the goodness of Windows Explorer and Google Chrome

Want some multi-functionality in your windows explorer? Clover 2 is a free utility that binds together Windows Explorer and Google Chrome. The concept behind this software is that is provides Google Chrome’s multi-functionalities to Windows explorer. For example, it installs Google Chrome like [...]

Immersive Explorer: A Metro Style Explorer Replacement for Windows 8

One element in Windows 8 that remains untouched and still hasn’t received the much talked about Metro touch UI is the Windows Explorer. Many third-party developers have got into the act of creating programs that can be used as an [...]

Dock frequently used folders to Windows Taskbar

Essential File Management Tips For Windows 7

Windows 7 has a beautiful way to organize things. While the tradition of having default folders for documents, music, video and pictures continues in Windows 7, it also allows you to create Libraries so that you can organize your files [...]

Enable hidden Explorer UI animations in Windows with AniExplorer

We had, quite some time back, covered a freeware called Madodate which let you move, flip and zoom your explorer windows, any which way you wanted. We had also covered a tip, where you could make your explorer windows minimize and [...]

Download Rights Protected Folder Explorer from Microsoft

Microsoft has made available a tool for Windows users, called Rights Protected Folder Explorer and it is available as a free download. What is a Rights Protected Folder A Rights Protected Folder is similar to a file folder in that [...]

Windows Explorer Drag and Drop behavior explained

Have you noticed that sometimes, when you drag and drop files or folders from one location to another, on your Windows computer, they get copied – and sometimes they get moved. Although this has been the default behavior of Windows since [...]

Enable or disable Autocomplete and Inline AutoComplete in Windows Explorer & Internet Explorer

You may not have noticed it, but there are two kinds of AutoComplete features in Windows. The first is simply called AutoComplete which is a kind of automatic suggestion feature. In this case you get to see a drop-down list [...]

Ribbon Icons Customizer – Change Windows 8 Explorer Ribbon Icons easily

Here is another new freeware from the TWC stables which is sure to interest customization enthusiasts. Ribbon Icons Customizer will let you change the icons on the Windows 8 explorer. While there may be a few who do not like [...]

How to Disable Windows Explorer with Ribbon on Windows 8

One of the new features on Windows 8 is it’s Windows Explorer ribbon. But not all users will like that feature. I was searching for this option and finally figured out to disable the ribbon n Windows 8 explorer. In [...]

Better Explorer: An Explorer replacement with Windows 8 style ribbon toolbar

A program that is integral to Windows operations is ‘Windows Explorer’, better known as file and folder manager. It provides detailed information on your files and folders and we use it to rename, move, manage and organize our files and [...]

Make Explorer.exe taskbar shortcut open your favorite folder

The Windows 7 taskbar explorer.exe shortcut icon, by defaults, opens the Libraries folder. We have already seen how you can make it open the Computer folder instead. In this post, I will tell you how to make it open any [...]

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