Win8 system skillfully master user folders and libraries

Users often use Windows to access folders and libraries, the folder refinement settings to better manage the file, and the library is like a user-friendly indexing function, so that users directly to any disk location of folders and files.

Enter the desktop of the WIN8 system, click on the folder icon in the lower left corner to open the Explorer interface, select the right side of the "Options" (as shown below).

Go to Folder settings

The dialog box that pops up is the folder options that we've seen on previous Windows systems.

General tab

。 Browser Folder Options

Open each folder in the same window means that the user opens a folder and continues to open the other without closing, and then another folder overwrites the folder of the current window.

"Open a different folder in a different window" means that the user opens a folder and continues to open the other without closing, and a new window is created when the other folder is opened.

。 How to open a project

"Click Open item" Mouse over the file to select the file, click to open.

The "Open item by double-clicking" Mouse click File only indicates a selection, double-click to open the file.

。 Navigation Pane

This has been said in the resource manager's essential skills and will not be discussed again.

Folder General Tab settings

View Tabs

Folder view

Apply to Folder sets all folders of the same type as the currently open folder to the same format.

Reset folder resets the folder options to the default settings and clicks the Prompt box.

Advanced Settings

Restore the previous folder window at logon means that when you check this option, the previous browsing folder will automatically open when the computer restarts.

When this item is checked by using check boxes to select items, the file will appear with a check box.

"Show prompt when pointing to folders and desktop items" Check this, when the mouse points to a folder or the desktop item displays relevant information.

Folder "View" tab settings

"Hide protected operating system files" is to prevent users mistakenly delete system important files, causing the system to run instability and the introduction of important preventive functions, many times we need to cancel this check.

"Do not show hidden files, folders, or drives" shows hidden files, folders, or drives, providing options for users to choose to display or not display hidden files, folders, and drives.

"Display encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color", and if this feature is checked, the system will display this type of file in color.

The rest of the functionality is less common, and there is no longer much to repeat.

Advanced Settings Associate the Win8 folder with the library

Let's take a look at the library function, the library is convenient for users to manage the folder shortcuts.

The library is like an indexing function, users can create a library for folders anywhere on the disk, and then access them uniformly, regardless of the folders under the C, D, and e letters (the folder under which a drive is previously opened requires "My Computer", select the drive, expand the path, and so on), Now as long as the interface into the library can be unified access, we look at how the library to use.

Into the WIN8 desktop, click on the lower left-hand corner of the folder icon to open the Resource manager, the default is the library interface.

The interface includes four categories of "video" "Picture" "Document" "Music", for example, a user's video resource folder, no matter which drive it is, can be included in the video library, and the next time you access the folder from the library interface, you don't have to bother to expand the tree directory.

Library main interface

Since it's easy to access a folder to a library, how do I set up a folder to be included in the library?

Select any folder under Explorer, click "Easy Access" on the File menu, select "Include in Library", or create a new library.

Select folder to include in library

Or you can right-click the folder or select the Include in library feature.

Right-click the folder to include in the library way

Now convenient, just put the Office folder under E-disk included in the library, now no longer visit E disk and then click the "program Files" folder, directly click on the desktop in the lower right corner folder icon can directly access the folder (as shown in the picture below).

Access Office folders directly from the library on the desktop

Through the experience, we know the options for the folder settings, you can from a user-friendly point of view to change the way the operating system manages the folder. The way to include libraries and create new libraries is to create a pass-through channel for users to easily access folders.

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