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Artofwalls, this thread is less than a month shy of being a year old.I have the latest RTM or the Creators Update Version 1703 Build 15063.483 and if I read the question correctly there is a Status Bar setting available in File Explorer.EDIT: Sorry, reread and see you may be asking about the program in post #15 called OldNewExplorer from. The last update to that page was Oct 4th, 2016. Doesn't look like it has been updated for Win10, especially as they haven't changed to reference the new name of File Explorer beginning with Win8.
Click to expand. I've felt similarly with having to use 3rd party apps for shadows and transparency, plus a registry hack to change many background colours to avoid eyestrain after MS took away the dialogues which included that, border width and many more that we had in 7. But MS's approach is to upset its customers in a determined fashion with random GUI changes, for example.If there were an easy way in Win 8/10 to do this, I suppose Oldnew explorer would never have appeared.- ok, so suggesta. Use the 'Windows Feedback' Modern/Universal app to tell MS what you need. Who knows, they 'might' respond.reallyb. Get together with others who feel similarly and post on MS forumsc. Use a 3rd party file manager which meets your needsd.
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When you open File Explorer in Windows 10, you see many things designed to make life simpler. There are so many, in fact, that the navigation pane on the left has become cluttered and confusing, exactly the opposite of what you need. Here are some tips about how to remove the “features” that don’t matter to you, to make File Explorer simpler and make you more productive.First, some background. What is File Explorer?File Explorer is the window that opens whenever you’re browsing anything on your computer. When you click on Start and choose Computer or Documents or Network, it’s File Explorer that opens up. When you click on File / Open in programs to browse through your files, you see a specialized view of File Explorer.
It’s the icon on the toolbar that looks like – well, what is it exactly? Ah, it’s one of those retro icons. It’s a manila folder in the kind of holder that used to be sold at Office Depot in the 1980s. Look in the Windows 10 taskbar for the icon shown above.What is the Navigation Pane?The navigation pane is the left column in File Explorer.At the dawn of time, in Windows 95, File Explorer’s navigation pane had Desktop at the top.
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No one knew why. Somewhere there is a retired Microsoft engineer who can explain why he thought that was a good metaphor. Immediately underneath it was “My Computer,” followed by all the drives.Slowly but surely, the navigation pane began to fill up. Windows Vista added Favorites. Windows 7 added Libraries and Homegroup. File syncing services like Dropbox and OneDrive began to add their own entries. Microsoft began to emphasize the core user folders – Documents, Pictures, etc.
– and steer us away from browsing through the other folders on the hard drive. Each new item pushed access to the hard drives further down the list.This is not a bad thing. It matches our experience on phones and tablets, where we typically don’t have access directly to the file system. Most people have no reason to browse files on the hard drives, and the convenience of having easy access to your user folders is exactly right. Some features, though, are rarely used and are getting in the way.This is the way that my navigation pane looked in Windows 10 before I started to prune things away. Notice that “Quick Access” is collapsed or it would be an even longer list. I had to scroll down to get to the C: drive.At least a few of those items can be pruned away.Each of the following tips is optional.
Don’t turn off features that you use! These are suggestions, not marching orders. Tip: Remove multimedia devicesThe Devices and Printers folder in Control Panel may include “multimedia devices.” Windows 10 automatically looks around the network for devices that are broadcasting their willingness to share media files. In my experience that is a rarely used feature and I have never found a reason for a media device to be displayed in the navigation pane. In the above picture, for example, the Plex servers are listed in the navigation pane for no reason – they’re accessed using Plex software.Open Control Panel / Devices and Printers.
Right-click on each multimedia device and click on “Remove device.” You won’t miss them. Tip: Remove LibrariesLibraries were as an innovative way to display multiple groups of files in a single view regardless of where they were stored. For the first time it was possible to gather, for example, personal files and office files in a single window and do searches through them together.
Unfortunately, like a lot of Microsoft’s great ideas, almost no one understood Libraries or used them to full advantage. Now they feel like an anachronism. Having Libraries in the navigation pane is a distraction for most people.You can turn Libraries off so they’re not displayed. Open File Explorer and click on View / Options.
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Click the View tab, scroll down to the bottom, and clear the checkmark by “Show libraries.” Tip: Remove HomegroupHomegroup was another good idea in Windows 7. Theoretically it’s an easy way to bypass some of the difficulty of setting up a network with shared folders and printers. It never caught on. Like Libraries, it was poorly understood and rarely used.If you’re not using Homegroup, you can make it disappear from the Windows navigation pane. The process is the same in Windows 7, 8, and 10. There are several steps –.
Tip: Choose whether to display Frequently Used Folders and Recently Used FilesNow we get to very personal preferences.Quick Access in the upper left of the navigation pane is used to store shortcuts to frequently used folders. Microsoft pre-populates it with a few default choices – Desktop, Documents, Downloads, etc.That’s similar to “Favorites” in Windows 7 and 8. New in Windows 10, though, is that by default Microsoft adds frequently used folders to the Quick Access list, a list that is assembled and updated automatically by watching you navigate around your computer.
For many people that will be genuinely helpful and you should leave it turned on.Microsoft also added a new optional section to Quick Access that displays recently used files. Again, that might be a welcome way to navigate quickly to files that you have been working on, so you don’t have to hunt for them in your Document and Pictures folders.Open File Explorer and click on View / Options. The checkboxes to turn those features on and off are on the bottom of the General tab. I prefer to turn them off and use only the shortcuts I’ve placed in Quick Access, which returns it to working like Favorites in Windows 7 and 8.
You should experiment to see what works for you. Tip: Choose whether to open File Explorer to This PC or Quick AccessWhen you click on File Explorer, you can choose whether it opens to Quick Access (the shortcuts and recently used folders and files) or to This PC (your user folders and the drives). There is no right or wrong answer, so experiment to see which one is better for you. The choice is shown in the above picture; again, open File Explorer and click on View / Options to toggle back and forth.After making those changes, my copy of File Explorer looks like the above picture when I open it. Many distractions are gone and it’s easier to find what I want in the left column. Take control of Windows 10 and make it work better for you!
Thanks Bruce for your reply. Just to be certain what you mean by “I can turn Libraries on and off”, whatever settings I use, when I open File Explorer, ‘Libraries’ appears in the Navigation pane, expanded to the next level of items. I can close it to only show ‘Libraries’, but I can’t find any way to stop ‘Libraries’ showing, never mind appearing when File Explorer is opened.
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Please can you confirm that “I can turn Libraries on and off” means that when it’s off, you don’t see it at all!With thanks,Chris. “At the dawn of time, in Windows 95, File Explorer’s navigation pane had Desktop at the top. No one knew why. ”There is a very simple reason it was done this way.
IIRC, at that time. MacOS claimed greater “user friendliness” than Windows due to (among other things) having a desktop, which Windows 3.1 and NT 3.5.1 both lacked: they used the “Program Manager” paradigm, which simply didn’t support a desktop.So when Windows 95 and NT 4 released in 1995, with Explorer rather than Program Manager, Microsoft operating systems got a desktop.
And then possibly as a response to the MacOS camp it makes total sense for them to place it as the topmost item in Explorer.As a purely personal opinion, I will comment that the addition of the desktop to those early versions of Windows was IMEHO one of the best user interface improvements made. I still shudder when I think how hideous it was using Program Manager vs Explorer.As another note, I can’t say for certain when the change started, but we seem to be headed to a “This PC”-centric model nowadays, certainly that’s how Windows 10 appears to be.
Not that it really matters, as long as there is an easily accessible location from which everything else can be found, very little changes if that location is the desktop or “This PC”. Even with that history – and my thanks for bringing the long view – I still remember the conceptual confusion for putting Desktop at the top as a container for “My Computer.” It just isn’t a good metaphor!I wrote this article two years ago and since then my File Explorer left column has accumulated more detritus. I was scrolling down today, trying to reach the C: drive and realized I was scrolling past “3D Objects” at the top of the list under “This PC.” I know, all I have to do is ignore it, but now I will never NOT notice that, every time I scroll that left column. Good information. Is one of the leading IT consulting firms in the North Bay, providing computer consulting, network consulting, and IT support to law firms, small businesses, and individuals - onsite in Sonoma County (Santa Rosa, Sebastopol), Marin County (San Rafael), and the Bay Area (San Francisco, Oakland), and remotely for clients all over California.provides daily computer tips, shopping suggestions, support information, security updates, and much more - written in plain English.is a simple directory of obvious places, with links to five hundred web sites and online services.
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There are a lot of changes in Windows 10’s File Explorer compared to Windows 7’s Windows Explorer. If you’ve upgraded to Windows 10 and you don’t like the changes, we’ll show you how you can get the look and feel of Windows 7’s Windows Explorer back.We’re going to use a free tool called OldNewExplorer to perform some of the changes, along with changing some built-in Windows settings and tweaking the registry. Don’t worry: the procedures are simple and we’ll take you through each part.NOTE: You don’t have to make all of the following changes, of course–you can just make the ones you really want. But to get the most Windows 7-like experience in File Explorer, you’ll need them all.
Download and Install OldNewExplorerThe first step is to to a folder on your hard drive. Keep in mind this is a third-party tool that alters the Windows system, so you should absolutely make a backup before continuing in case something goes wrong. We have tested the tool thoroughly, but you never know when a Windows Update might cause something to break.Next, extract the downloaded file to that folder using a tool like. OldNewExplorer is not installed like other programs. First, run the program by double-clicking the OldNewExplorerCfg.exe file.Then, on the OldNewExplorer configuration dialog box, click “Install” in the Shell extension section. This allows the settings on this dialog box to be applied to File Explorer when you select them.Give the program permission to make changes to your PC. The User Account Control dialog box displays twice.
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Click “Yes” both times.The message “Installed” displays in the Shell extension section of the OldNewExplorer configuration dialog box.Disable the File Explorer Ribbon and Change the Look of the Navigation BarMicrosoft added a ribbon, like the one in Microsoft Office programs, to File Explorer in Windows 8, and changed the look of the navigation bar.If you don’t like the ribbon, you can disable it and use the command bar from Windows 7’s Windows Explorer instead. To do this, check the “Use command bar instead of Ribbon” box in the Appearance section of the OldNewExplorer configuration dialog box.NOTE: There are additional options below the “Use command bar instead of Ribbon” option that look like they depend on that option. However, they can be selected even if the command bar option is not.
These additional options are automatically checked when you check the command bar option.If you want to hide the caption text on the File Explorer title bar, check the “Hide caption text in File Explorer windows” box. Check the “Hide caption icon in File Explorer windows” box if you also want to hide the icon and have an empty title bar (if you turned on the “Use command bar instead of Ribbon” option).You can also hide the “Up” button by checking the “Hide Up (go to parent folder) button” box, although that button is rather useful. You can also “Enable glass on navigation bar” which makes the navigation bar the same color and style as the title bar, instead of white.To change the style of the navigation buttons (right and left arrow buttons) on the navigation bar, check the “Use alternate navigation buttons style” box in the Appearance section of the OldNewExplorer configuration dialog box.The altered navigation bar area will look similar to the following image.
We decided not to hide the Up button.Enable the Details PaneWhen you show the Details pane in Windows 7’s Windows Explorer, it displays at the bottom of the window. However, the Details pane was moved to the right side in Windows 10, taking up precious horizontal space and causing you to widen the window to see the file details.NOTE: If you replaced the ribbon with the command bar in the previous section, you can show the Details pane by selecting Organize Layout Details pane.