You can simply put the often-used items to the Quick Access Bar which is always available either at the top of the window or below the Ribbon. With Quick Access Bar, you shouldn’t have the excuse anymore that it’s not convenient to find what you want when needed. Oh, you can even access the Folder Options right from there too. You can find all the operations easily in View Tab, including Hide button, Show/Hide hidden items, Show/Hide extension names, and display the check boxes. Making a file hidden is a lot easier in the new Windows Explorer. I found this feature is super handy to me, and I just love it. Do you know in Windows 8 you can simply drag and drop the files or folders into the displayed folder name to do a file copy or move? For example, in the screenshot above, I can copy the file Blank.exe to Data folder by simply dragging and dropping it to Data folder in the address bar. The Address bar in Windows Explorer displays a detail folder path of the current folder you are in. Drop Files/Folder onto Address Bar to Copy/Move

It’s available already in Windows 7 but it’s a lot easier in Windows 8. Simply click it and bang, all the items you previously wanted to select are all selected without going through again. And that’s when this Invert Selection comes to the rescue. Now, you realized you’ve made a mistake selecting the wrong item all along. For example, you have spent quite a bit time selecting a lot of items from a large number of files or folders in a folder using a combination of Shift+Click and Ctrl+Click. What is this Invert Selection anyway? Basically, it selects all items previously not selected. Add file/folder to Library or Favorites.Pin file/folder to Start (the Start menu, not Taskbar).With Easy Access which you can find on Home Tab, you can You may not agree but let me share with you these tips you may not be aware that you can do in this version of File Explorer. It’s powerful, smooth, efficient, and user-friendly, even the Ribbon bar looks quite nice to me. Guess what? I actually quite like what the new File Explorer offers. Because I deal with folders and files almost on daily basis, Windows Explorer, now called File Explorer in Windows 8, is still my best friend and the program I use the most on my day to day work.

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