{"id":1952,"date":"2011-05-23T18:31:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T22:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2011-05-23T19:07:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T23:07:10","slug":"folder-views-in-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/folder-views-in-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Folder views in Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our favorite features of Windows 7 is the way you can customize folder views almost any way you like. Some special folders like &#8220;Documents&#8221; have additional choices, but every folder on your Windows 7 computer is customizable in a number of different ways.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 7 puts special folders like Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos in a directory called Libraries. Each of these special folders has different options for organizing the folder&#8217;s content.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at the  Pictures folder. A great way to organize your pictures is by month. For instance  EB has two birthdays &#8211; one in July and one in September. That way she gets at  least two parties a year. Since she has no birth certificate, so no one knows what  her real birthday is or how old she is. I&#8217;m not even going to guess her age, I  have to work with her; if you want to guess, go ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the Pictures  folder below. As you can see we have it arranged by month.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2011\/pictures-folder.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"InfoAve Premium \" width=\"508\" height=\"389\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s look at the Music  folder. The Music folder is a default folder in the Libraries directory. As you  can see, the choices you have to arrange the contents of the Music folder are  different from the choices you had for the Pictures folder. You can arrange the  contents in the Music folder by Folder, Album, Artist, Song, Genre, or Rating.  EB doesn&#8217;t like music as you ca see by the pathetic content of her music folder.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2011\/music-folder.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"InfoAve Premium \" width=\"512\" height=\"231\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>OK, one more special folder in  the Libraries directory and that&#8217;s the Video folder. We can&#8217;t show you a picture  of the Video folder because it came from EB&#8217;s computer and this is a family  newsletter. No, really, I&#8217;m kidding. As you can see from the image below, the  Video folder gives you different options for sorting the content than the  Pictures or Music folder. It makes sense, right? It&#8217;s not very often that  Windows makes sense, so let&#8217;s revel in this for a minute.<\/p>\n<p>OK, now you&#8217;re done reveling,  so look at the picture below. Note the different and logical choices you have  for sorting your videos. You can sort them by Folder, Year, Type, Length or  Name. It&#8217;s up to you how you want to sort your videos.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2011\/video-folder.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"InfoAve Premium \" width=\"513\" height=\"234\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The biggest and most important  folder (to most of us) in the Libraries directory is the Documents folder &#8211;  formerly known to all of us XP users as &#8220;My Documents&#8217;. Now they&#8217;re not just  your documents or my documents, they&#8217;re just plain documents &#8211; but you can stick  anything you want in your documents folder, even EB.<\/p>\n<p>There are three pictures below  showing three different ways of organizing your Documents folder.<\/p>\n<p>The image below shows the  Documents folder arranged it its default view &#8211; by folder.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2011\/documents-folder.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"InfoAve Premium \" width=\"558\" height=\"223\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you prefer, you can organize  your Documents by Date Modified. You can sort the contents from oldest to newest  or newest to oldest. Whatever floats your boat. In the image below we&#8217;ve sorted  them from newest to oldest. This is probably the most logical way to sort them  by date, but if you like walking backward or driving backward or jumping out of  airplanes, you&#8217;re different &#8211; you might want to sort them from oldest to  newest. It&#8217;s up to you, and it&#8217;s easy to do.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2011\/documents-date-modified.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"InfoAve Premium \" width=\"582\" height=\"288\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And one last example: Here  we&#8217;ve sorted the contents in alpha order. But this time instead of sorting them  from A to Z we&#8217;ve sorted them from Z to A. You can do it either way; the point  is you have choices.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2011\/documents-name.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"InfoAve Premium \" width=\"490\" height=\"183\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In Windows 7 you&#8217;ve got plenty  of choices and ways to get organized. Every folder has several ways you can sort  its content. Some folders such as the ones we&#8217;ve shown above, have special  options which are specific to the folder&#8217;s contents &#8211; like Music, Videos, or  Pictures.<\/p>\n<p>The best way to stay organized  is to try the different folder views that Windows 7 offers. Play around with the  different choices and you&#8217;re sure to find an organizational scheme that will  help you stay organized &#8211; or at least give the appearance you are. We just  wanted you to know the choices that Windows 7 gives you. What you do with those  choices is up to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our favorite features of Windows 7 is the way you can customize folder views almost any way you like. Some special folders like &#8220;Documents&#8221; have additional choices, but every folder on your Windows 7 computer is customizable in a number of different ways. 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