One of the limitations of Windows Explorer is that it only displays the contents of one folder. Consequently, you need to open multiple Windows Explorer windows to drag and drop, or move, files from one folder to another. However,...
Windows Explorer doesn’t have any options that group and list all the file extensions within a selected folder. As such, you can’t group file extension categories to search folders by file types contained within them. ...
Whilst you can customize software icons with the Change Icon option on their Properties windows, Windows doesn’t have that option for folders. Nevertheless, we can customize the folder icons in Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 wit...
Do you have a folder with top-secret files in it? If so you can make the folder perma invisible. And by perma invisible I mean the folder won’t be shown even if someone enables “show hidden files and folder” in W...
If you need to copy a list of files from a folder in Windows there’s a better way to do that than copying and pasting each of the file titles. Instead you can set up a Notepad text document with all the file titles in a fold...
There are a variety of third-party software packages with which you can add password to folders in Windows. However, you can also add a password to a folder without any additional software. You can instead set up a batch file that...
You can pin folders to the Windows 7 taskbar with the TaskBarPinner software. However, TaskBarPinner doesn’t have options that pin folders to the Start menu. Nevertheless, folders can still be pinned to the Windows 7 Start menu wi...
Whilst Windows includes hide folder options, such options are hardly full-proof. There’s a much more secure way to hide, or disguise, your folders as shortcuts which few would guess you have documents or software in. The tri...
The folders in Windows don’t have a great diversity of colors. The standard folder icon is yellow, but you can change folders’ colors. All that’s required is the freeware Rainbow Folders software package. Rainbow...
You can add a variety of new options to the Windows XP/Vista/7/8 right-click context menus by tweaking the registry. Among the options that you can add to the Windows Explorer context menus are Copy To Folder and Move To Folder. B...
Ever had a situation where you wished you could print out a list of all the contents of a folder or directory in Windows but couldn’t quite find any tool which could do that. Sure, hitting Print Screen and then pasting the c...
Document files are usually moved into new folders by dragging and dropping them to new locations. However, you can add a Files 2 Folder option to the context menu which converts selected files to a new folder. Then the document fi...
You can change the background of the Windows XP/Vista/7 desktops, but not Windows Explorer folders. However, with extra software you can add background wallpapers to Windows Explorer folders. The freeware Windows 7 Folder Backgrou...
