{"id":20237,"date":"2020-10-28T16:51:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T20:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=20237"},"modified":"2020-10-28T16:51:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T20:51:31","slug":"how-to-minimize-the-windows-10-file-explorer-ribbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-minimize-the-windows-10-file-explorer-ribbon\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Minimize the Windows 10 File Explorer Ribbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">How to Minimize the Windows 10 File Explorer Ribbon<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/theribbon1.png\" alt=\"Windows 10 Tips, Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"588\" height=\"221\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The File Explorer Ribbon<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The Windows 10 File Explorer Ribbon gives you a lot of choices and options, but it also takes up more than its share of screen real estate. But did you know you can hide the ribbon and then bring it back quickly and easily?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Here&#8217;s how&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Open File Explorer.\u00a0On the title bar, locate the small &#8220;down arrow&#8221; icon, then click it and click on &#8220;Minimize the Ribbon&#8221;. See the screenshot below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/min-the-ribbon.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Windows 10 tips\" width=\"392\" height=\"280\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Notice, now, the Ribbon is minimized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/no-ribbon.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Windows 10 tips\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">To bring the Ribbon back, click the down-arrow icon again and remove the checkmark from &#8220;Minimize the ribbon&#8221; by clicking on it<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/ribbon.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Windows 10 tips\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">And the Ribbon&#8217;s back again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Well &#8212; sometimes you feel like a ribbon and sometimes you don&#8217;t!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; How to Minimize the Windows 10 File Explorer Ribbon The File Explorer Ribbon The Windows 10 File Explorer Ribbon gives you a lot of choices and options, but it also takes up more than its share of screen real estate. But did you know you can hide the ribbon and then bring it back quickly and\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-minimize-the-windows-10-file-explorer-ribbon\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3948],"tags":[4077],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20237"}],"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=20237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20240,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20237\/revisions\/20240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}