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Performance
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File Explorer OptionsI've always had to visit the File Explorer Options dialog in Windows as I see no sense at all in hiding file extensions.  Finding the File Explorer Options dialogNothing is easy to find in Windows 10, so you might as well just use the search facility in the Start menu. Click the Start button or press the Windows key. Type File Explorer Options and click the panel shown in Best match. You can get to the same dialog from File Explorer itself. Click the View button or tab or whatever it is. On the far right side of the ribbon-thing, you should see Options. Click the little picture or the word "Options" or the triangle underneath, it doesn't matter. The dialog will appear, but the title bar will show Folder Options instead of File Explorer Options. Never mind. With Windows 10, the exact same thing having multiple names is the least of your worries. The General TabI don't really know what's going on here. File Explorer is now so unfriendly nothing seems to help (I just want to explore the files on the computer!) For better or worse, I Open File Explorer to This PC, Open each folder in the same window and Double-clock to open an item. I do not Show recently used files in Quick Access nor do I Show frequently used folders in Quick Access, not through concerns about privacy, but because Quick Access is basically getting in my way all the time. The View TabAlways show icons, never thumbnails — Always show menus — what does this do? Display file icon on thumbnails — what does this do? Display file size information in folder tips — If you hover over a file or folder then after some time an infotip (pop-up description) will appear that contains the date that it was created. I find that completely useless. If I really need to know this, I'll use right-click → properties. So, I check this option to additionally show more useful information about the file size and, for folders, what is in there. However, it can take some effort to find the total size of complex folders and "... turning this option off may provide a performance increase ...". OK, fine, maybe if I was running some important job and started poking around in the Windows folder I would notice, but I can't get excited about this and just leave it on. Display the full path in the title bar — Absolutely I enable this. It's getting harder and harder to figure out where a file really is, so I often rely on this. Hidden files and folders — Hide empty drives — Hide extensions for known file types — Hide folder merge conflicts — Hile protected operating system files (Recommended) — Launch folder windows in a separate process — what does this do? Restore previous folder windows at logon — what does this do? Show drive letters — Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color — Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items — Show preview handlers in preview pane — Show status bar — Show sync provider notifications — Use check boxes to select items — Use Sharing Wizard (Recommended) — When typing into list view — Navigation pane, Always show availability status — Navigation pane, Expand to open folder — Navigation pane, Show all folders — Navigation pane, Show libraries — The Search TabI don't use the File Explorer Search feature. As far as I know, its purpose is to look for files that have certain contents because you can't remember where they are or what they are called. Well, what can I say. I have never been in that situation. I remember what files I've created and where I've put them more easily than details about exactly what was in them. So, I leave everything in the Search tab at the default settings. |