Where is windows explorer in windows 8

Opening File Explorer. Address Bar Use the Address bar to see the path of the current folder. Search Bar Use the search bar to search for specific files or folders. Ribbon The Ribbon allows you to access different tabs with options for viewing, sharing, and organizing your files, as well as common shortcuts like copy and paste. Navigation Buttons Use the Back and Forward buttons to navigate between folders.

Navigation Pane You can quickly navigate between folders in the Navigation pane. File Double-click a file to open it in the default application. Changing the content view from the View tab. Sorting files by size. Searching for a file. The Search Tools tab. Files shared between the Music app and Music library. Including a folder in a library. The folder included in the chosen library.

Viewing photos from the Pictures library in the Photos app. Next: Personalizing Your Desktop. In Details view we can use the column heading to change how files are organized or sorted. For example, if we click on the Name column, files will be sorted by name. We can search for files and folders in current folder by using Search box.

The search begins as soon as we start typing. Not only it will try to find the file names, but will also search the contents of the files.

We can also turn on the Details pane. To do that we can go to the View tab, and then click on the Details pane. Details pane will show us the common properties of the selected file. On the bottom of the File Explorer we can quickly see the total number of items in the location, the total size of selected items, etc.

The biggest difference compared to previous versions of Windows versions is the new Ribbon interface in File Explorer in Windows 8. As you can see the Ribbon now contains many useful tools that we can utilize. Depending on the location or file selection, we will see different tools. On the picture below we have browsed to the Desktop folder and selected some file. In the upper left corner we will see the Properties and New Folder buttons.

Notice that you can customize this list add or remove tools. This toolbar is called the Quick Access Toolbar. The different available tabs are Home, Share, and View.

We should also check the File menu. The File menu contains File commands. The Home tab contains many usual tools that we are accustomed to. Now I think I'll have to go right back to factory reset Stop hiding things from me. My tower and Windows XP an unstable slow program at the best is far superior to this OS because at least I can find things so I can fix problems or at least improve performance.

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