Exploring the View Options

File Explorer’s view boasts a large number of customization options that you need to be familiar with. To see these options, you have two choices:

• In File Explorer, select View, Options.

• Press Windows Logo+W, type folder, and then click Folder Options in the search results.

Either way, the view options can be found, appropriately enough, on the View tab of the Folder Options dialog box, as shown in Figure 24.12.

Image

Figure 24.12. The View tab has quite a few options for customizing File Explorer.

Here’s a complete list of the various items in the Advanced Settings list:

Always Show Icons, Never Thumbnails—Activate ...

Get Windows 8 In Depth now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.