My favourite advanced secret feature of Explorer is that you can sort files by multiple columns. First sort by the primary column such as file type, and then shift-click a secondary column such as date to add it as a second sort criteria.
Windows Explorer Through the Years
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Another tip: Shift-Right-Click a file in Explorer and "Copy as path" will appear in the context menu. Puts the full file path in your clipboard.
Da fck. I recently learned you can add this feature to the right click context menu via adding a registry entry. If I’d’a known shift-right click I wouldn’t make bothered.
I only learned last year (when I was still on Windows 7) that you can right-click drag (for example a file on to an email in outlook) and it will throw a pop-up where you can select "Create hyperlink here".
It dropped my jaw...after decades using Windows I had never known right click and drag was even a thing!
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#63Still not as good as Thunar. Or XTree Gold/ZTree
I like Thunar, but what particular features of Thunar are better?
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Floating windows in floating windows, I can't believe I forgot that was ever a thing.
It's called Multiple Document Interface (MDI) and in some instances can be quite useful. MS have completely depreciated it now to the extent that MDI apps no longer render their window chrome properly since Windows 7.
FYI: deprecate [0]
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#65Sorry for offtopic, but I'd like to share a tip I can't imagine living without. You can type cmd in explorer address bar and it'll open cmd in that directory (probably works with any other program in your %PATH%). Also you can type `explorer .` in cmd to open explorer in the current directory.
Also if you aren't on hte mouse, CTRL+L in the folder jumps the cursor to the address bar.
This also works in all modern browsers, I use this hundreds of time per day.
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#66My favourite advanced secret feature of Explorer is that you can sort files by multiple columns. First sort by the primary column such as file type, and then shift-click a secondary column such as date to add it as a second sort criteria.
omg... THANK YOU!
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#67It's so weird, I can't help but feel nostalgic when I see Windows XP screenshots. It seems I really like it's aesthetic. I'm quite sure it wasn't the case at the time.
I always used it in "windows 2000" skin mode to save on computer resources. Can still vividly remember the day I got a new computer with enough RAM that running the Win Xp default theme didn't really make an impact.
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#68Here's a fun story: I stopped using Windows when I was 12, almost 20 years ago but Windows explorer was something I used 2000 times a day and I got so used to opening it with win+e that even till this day I set this shortcut to open Nautilus.
Muscle memory is a bitch. I'm primarily on Windows, but whenever I need to install and mess with Linux the first thing I do is find a way to make the window manager tile to half screen with "Win+arrows". Cannot live without that shortcut.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Floating windows in floating windows, I can't believe I forgot that was ever a thing.
It's called Multiple Document Interface (MDI) and in some instances can be quite useful. MS have completely depreciated it now to the extent that MDI apps no longer render their window chrome properly since Windows 7.
Right move IMHO, I always found it a bit confusing and somewhat arbitrary.
However, removing MDI from Office apps was not followed by implementing a persistent-background-app replacement. So now you open a Word document, wait with splash-screen, look at the document, close it, then open another Word document, wait with splash-screen, repeat... so annoying.
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#70I switched from Windows to OSX 15 years ago, the only thing I miss sometimes is the Windows Explorer, though it's not perfect it's really better.
Could not agree more. Finder is a mess. Explorer just gets the job done.