Customize File Explorer with some useful Registry tweaks to declutter menus, speed up browsing, and restore classic features.

Windows 11's File Explorer is getting a bunch of new buttons that will make its Home page a lot more convenient.

File Explorer in Windows 11 version 24H2 comes with a new file compression tool, which lets you compress multiple files and folders into a smaller file. Previous versions of Windows only let you ...

Launch Windows Search (press Windows+S), type File Explorer Options, and choose the item with that name. In the File Explorer Options window, open the "General" tab if you arent already there.

If the navigation pane in File Explorer has suddenly disappeared, it can make browsing and managing files much harder. This ...

This will cause Windows to open the Folder Options dialog box. If you look at Figure 1, you can see that at the very top of the dialog box, there is an Open File Explorer to drop down box.

There are two native ways to always open desktop folders and external folder links in the new tab of File Explorer in Windows 11/10. These are: Using the Folder Options Using the Registry Editor.

Open the file, confirm changes in the registry and restart your computer. The standard File Explorer in Windows 11 should be back. Credit for the tweak goes to the German blog Deskmodder.

After applying KB5051987, many Windows users have been hit by troubles with File Explorer, as spotted by Windows Latest. In some cases, File Explorer fails to respond when you try to open folders ...

Since Windows 11 supports many archival formats natively, you can use File Explorer to open and extract these 7z/TAR files. If you can’t see the options, go to Settings > Update & Security ...

On Windows 11, you can disable thumbnail previews for files and folders on File Explorer if they’re not working correctly or you don’t want to use the feature, and you can do this through File ...