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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Best Windows Explorer Hacks




Here in this article i have listed 4 Best Windows Explorer Hacks that you Must be aware of to make your Files management Experience more easy and efficient.


4 Best Windows Explorer Hacks


1) Edit Send to Menu 

Windows By Default allows you to Send any file or folder to
Desktop, or Compress it or Mail it to the Recipient of your Choice, We Can Edit this Send to Menu to display things that you want to display, you can add or delete anything from this menu Easily.

Navigate to 

C:\Users\*Username*\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo.

 Appdata Folder is Hidden by Default, First unhide it by Clicking on 

View>Option>Folder option>View> Check show hidden files,folders and Drives.

OR

You Can alternatively open Send to Folder with Run Command, Press Win+R key to open up Run Dialog, and type in shell:sendto and press Enter.


There You Can see Some Similar Files That were showing you in the Send to Menu. To Remove any Option you can delete that File from Send to folder. On the other hand to add Something to Send to Menu, Just Copy the folder that you want to show up in Send to Menu and Paste it there in that Folder. Now Check the Send to menu to See the Changes. All Done !!!


2) Change Default Folder 

Whenever you Launch Windows Explorer in windows 7/8, it opens up Library folder, but may it its not that usefull for us or we need some other folder to open up when we Click on taskbar’s Windows Explorer Shortcut. So in this hack we will Change Windows Default Folder  to our Downloads Folder instead of library.

◾To Start with we will Right click on the Windows Explorer or File Explorer for Win 8 Users from the task bar icon. A list will show up, Now again Click on Windows Explorer (File Explorer) and Click on Properties.

◾You can see a Dialog Box appears, There you Can see target path is somewhat like AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Libraries all we have to do is change this path to your desired folder that you want to open up everythime you launch file explorer.

◾As here we are going to Change it to Download Folder we will change the path to C:\Users\*Username*\Downloads. Click OK and we have successfully changed the path now.


3) Add tabs to File manager 

We will be Using a Third Party tool Which is QTTabBar (2.9 mb) to Get advantage of Tabs, just like we have tabs in our Browsers. It not only Facilitates with the tabs but also provides many other usefull features that shows up in you file explorer

You will be asked for a Reboot in order to make changes after the installation process Completes. you might like to see how to disable windows restart after windows update or after installing any software.


4)Better File Copying Speed

Windows have made some efforts in windows 8 to improve Copying Speed. Copying FIles is better in windows 8 as compared to older versions but yet its slow and many times it Conflicts, so We will be Using TeraCopy to Takeup this task and its Fast and Effective. What it does is, it  Eliminates windows Default File-Copy Dialog  and gives us a better one.

After Installing TeraCopy, Whenever you Will Copy and paste, TeraCopy will Come into Action and do the Task for you much Faster. it also adds itself to Context Menu as an Option if in Case you prefer to Use it only when you Want to .

With this it Concludes my List of Best Windows Explorer Hacks, Which i have Tried and have helped me. if you know any other Trick of Windows Explorer then Feel free to Add a Comment Below. 




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