Posts under Explorer tag.

Organize your open windows with WinSplit Revolution

Nowadays multi-tasking is what we all do, whether its on a PC or a Laptop. While multi-tasking, we may open several windows while minimizing others; frequently using the ALT+TAB keys too, maybe! It would surely be very helpful if all [...]

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Classic Shell: Add Up button, show titlebar, get classic feel, etc, in Windows 7 explorer

We had earlier blogged about how you to get the classic start menu back in Windows 7. Using Classic Shell, you can get the Windows Classic Start Menu & Windows Explorer toolbar back in their Windows 7. Get old classic [...]

Shift the close & minimize buttons to left side of Windows Explorer

Want to shift the close, minimize, maximize buttons to the left side of your windows explorer, from the default right side position?

Add features to Windows 7 Explorer with 7plus

7plus is a freeware which tries to make working with Windows much more comfortable by adding features to explorer, window handling, and lots of other small tweaks.

How to restart Windows Explorer easily with a shortcut

If for some reason, you need to restart your Windows Explorer, you would normally do the following:

Disable or enable items from New submenu in Explorer context menu

When we install programs, many items get added to the right click context menu of explorer.exe, in the ‘New’ submenu. This submenu is requeired when you want to open a new file (or command or item) of that type on, [...]

Change the color of Windows 7 & Vista explorer navigation button

Vista/7 Navigation Button Colorizer is a tool which can easily change your Windows 7 & Vista’s explorer navigation button colour in one click. The app now seems to have been updated to run on Windows 7 too!

Synchronize Navigation pane of Windows 7 explorer with Main pane.

When you open Windows explorer, you notice that it has a left pane called as the Navigation Pane, which includes links to Drives, Special Folders, Favorites, etc and the main or right pane which contains your files and folders.

Recycle Bin Manager for Windows : RecycleBinEx & BinManager

Looking for a Recycle Bin Manager for your Windows computer? RecycleBinEx & BinManager are two you may want to check out. BinManager is shell context menu command for deleting old items from Windows Recycle Bin, as well as a scriptable [...]

Add SkyDrive To Your Windows Explorer with SkyDrive Explorer

Windows Live SkyDrive is part of Microsoft’s Windows Live online services. SkyDrive is a file storage and sharing service that allows users to upload files to the computing cloud, then access them from a web browser.

Windows explorer replacements and alternatives: Add Tabs & More Features

The Windows 7 explorer is feature-rich and quite a handy file and folder manager. But if you are looking forward to adding tabs, and many other features, to make the humble explorer run on steroids, you can check out some [...]

Explore as Administrator PowerToy released.

Have you ever tried to use Windows Explorer to create a folder within or copy a file into a protected folder such a Program Files or Windows and had to deal with the confusing “File Operation” dialog box before you [...]

Display any file, folder, program in Computer folder of Windows 7 easily

You can, if you wish to, display your favorite file or its shortcuts directly in the (My) Computer folder of Windows 7 & Vista.

How to move a window, when its title bar goes off screen

On occasions it may have happened that the title bar of your open explorer window may have moved off screen, ie. your window slides off the desktop, as a result of which you are unable to move the window with [...]

How to customize the Save As dialog box in Windows 7

Simpli Software’s Places Utility allows users to customize the Windows ‘Save As’ dialog box.

Roll up and manage open windows easily with WinRoll

WinRoll easily manages multiple open windows. With this portable freeware, you can make a window roll into its title bar, send it to the back or make it stay on top.

Troubleshooting Games Explorer in Windows 7

If you find that you are unable to access the Games folder in Windows 7 or its link does not open or you cannot run a game from it, here are a few things you may want to try. To [...]

Explorer.exe won’t start at boot in Windows

If every time your Windows computer starts, your explorer does not start and you are left seeing the wallpaper only, and you are left with no choice, but to start explorer.exe manually, then here are a few troubleshooting steps you [...]

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