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Paneful Explorations
When navigating down a directory tree in single-pane Explorer windows, you can hold down the shift key when you click on a new target to open a full, two-pane Explorer view.
Double-click on My Computer, C:, then Windows. Find the file called EXPLORER.EXE. Drag and drop it to the desktop, and change the name of the Desktop file from "Shortcut to Explorer.exe" to simply "Explorer." Double-click on the file to bring up Explorer.
Explorer knows the alphabet backward and forward. To view the contents of a folder in reverse alphabetical order, select View/Details, then click on the Name bar. The Name bar toggles back and forth between alphabetical order and reverse alphabetical order.
In Explorer, select View/Details, then click on the Size bar to see the files listed in file-size order, biggest files first. Click on the Size button again to see smallest files listed first.
Select View/Details, then click on the Type bar to list files in alphabetical order according to the type of files (for example, applications and DAT files). Click on the bar again to see them in reverse-alphabetical order by file type.
Tell Explorer to show you files in the order in which they were created or edited by selecting View/Details, then clicking on the Modified bar. Click on the Modified bar again to toggle between viewing the oldest files first and the newest files first.
The four previous tips are true for everything except folders. They group together alphabetically at the top or bottom of the pack no matter what operation you perform.
If you're looking for a specific document inside a folder, but don't know the document's name, select the folder in the left pane of Explorer. Then select Find/Files or Folders from the Tools menu. Click on the Advanced tab and type in a string of text from the document you're looking for. Click on the Find Now button.
In Explorer, you can quickly select all the files in the right pane. Make sure at least one of the files in the pane is selected, or select the directory in the left pane, then press Ctrl+A.
To find out the collective size of objects in a folder, open Explorer, select the folder and look at the number on the bottom of the right pane.
To find out how much hard disk space you have, simply look at the bottom of your Explorer window on the right side. It will show the total free space in parentheses.
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