{"id":12428,"date":"2017-02-22T13:47:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T18:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=12428"},"modified":"2017-02-22T13:47:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T18:47:04","slug":"get-a-more-traditional-view-when-you-open-file-explorer-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/get-a-more-traditional-view-when-you-open-file-explorer-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Get a More Traditional View When You Open File Explorer in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Get a More Traditional View When You Open File Explorer in Windows 10<\/h1>\n

Back in the old days it was called My Computer, and everyone was fine with that. Even if you were on someone else\u2019s computer, and it wasn\u2019t your computer, you were still OK with My Computer. Then later, Microsoft, thinking that calling it My Computer would make people think every computer was their computer, dropped the My and it became Computer.<\/p>\n

Alas, all the old people got booted out of Microsoft — because they’re weren’t making enough money — and some guy whose name I can\u2019t spell took over, hired a bunch of new people and they\u2019re cooler than the old people. Now it\u2019s not My Computer or Computer, it\u2019s This PC. This PC is My Computer\u2026a rose by any other name, you know. Now what\u2019s my point? My point is that when you click \u201cFile Explorer\u201d (Windows Explorer\u2019s new name in Windows 10) you won\u2019t see your drives in the default File Explorer view, you will see the Quick Access menu.<\/p>\n

Quick Access is pretty cool, but I think it’s way cooler if you can see both your Quick Access items and your drives — hard drives, usb drives, dvd\/cd drives, external drives — in the same window. As for Quick Access, well it’s sort of like Libraries, and it’s pretty handy, but for the sake of brevity, we\u2019ll save that discussion for another time.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re going to show you how to change File Explorer so it opens up with Quick Access and This PC (formerly known as Computer and My Computer). And it\u2019s very simple. It\u2019s so simple in fact, you\u2019ll be able to do it faster than you were able to read this tip.<\/p>\n

Ready?<\/p>\n

Step #1:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Open File Explorer. You can do this a bunch of ways \u2013 here are three:<\/p>\n

Click start & click \u201cThis PC\u201d (yes I know)
\nClick the folder icon on your taskbar
\nPress the Windows Key + E<\/p>\n

Note that will open to \u201cQuick access\u201d (highlighted in yellow below).<\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/p>\n

Step #2:<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s change this so it opens up to This PC (My Computer\/Computer).<\/p>\n

Click View (at the top \u2013 see red box)
\nClick Options (see red arrow)
\nSelect Change folder and search options \u2013 highlighted in yellow below:<\/p>\n

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\nStep #3:<\/p>\n

In Folder Options, next to \u201cOpen File Explorer to: \u201d use the down arrow to select This PC. Then click Apply\/OK.<\/p>\n

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Behold! It\u2019s My Computer\/Computer\/This PC \u2013 just like it used to be in days of old.<\/p>\n

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See? Look up. Now you can see your drives as well as your main Quick Access folders. If you preview this view, then you’ll love this tip.<\/p>\n

My friends, now you know how to make File Explorer open to “This PC” in Windows 10. And remember old timers, File Explorer was formerly known as My Computer and Computer.<\/p>\n

If you get tired of a more traditional File Explorer view and want to go back to seeing only your Quick Access items in the default File Explorer view, justfollow the steps above and select Quick Access instead of This PC in step 3 above.<\/p>\n

Yay! I\u2019m done.<\/p>\n

PS: You can pin things you use often to Quick Access. It’s cool. We’ll cover that later. OK?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Get a More Traditional View When You Open File Explorer in Windows 10 Back in the old days it was called My Computer, and everyone was fine with that. Even if you were on someone else\u2019s computer, and it wasn\u2019t your computer, you were still OK with My Computer. Then later, Microsoft, thinking that calling it My Computer\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12429,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12428\/revisions\/12429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}