gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » windows explorer tip http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:32:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Automatically Synchronize The Folder Structure In Windows Explorer [Windows 7]http://www.ghacks.net/2010/01/15/automatically-synchronize-the-folder-structure-in-windows-explorer-windows-7/ http://www.ghacks.net/2010/01/15/automatically-synchronize-the-folder-structure-in-windows-explorer-windows-7/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:21:53 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=22359 If you work with Windows Explorer you notice that it uses a layout with two columns by default. The left column contains links to favorites, the computer’s drive letters, special folders like the desktop, libraries and network folders. Selecting a folder on the left does not change the folder structure on the right which is something that makes it difficulty to navigate through a folder structure as it is only possible to use the back button to go back one level.

Some users might find it easier to access the opened folder structure in the left column which would provide better and more comfortable options to navigate in Windows Explorer.

Windows Explorer contains settings that can be used to change the display of the folder structure so that the structure in the left column is always in sync with the selected folder in the right column.

The settings can be found by clicking on the Organize menu in the top bar of Windows Explorer and selecting Folder and Search options from the menu.

A checkmark needs to be placed in the two options Show all folders and Automatically expand to current folder. The changes are immediately active and Windows Explorer will from then on automatically display the selected folder both in the left and right column in Windows Explorer.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2010/01/15/automatically-synchronize-the-folder-structure-in-windows-explorer-windows-7/feed/ 3 How To Save Files In Different Formatshttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/12/how-to-save-files-in-different-formats/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/12/how-to-save-files-in-different-formats/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:48:14 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14349 microsoft windowsUsers who want to create a bat file usually start by creating a text document in Windows and change the file extension afterwards to bat. The same principle is used when creating other formats like html documents. The following tip is not limited to Windows Explorer or text documents. It works as well in web browsers like Internet Explorer or Firefox, email clients like Mozilla Thunderbird and Microsoft Outlook and practically any program that is offering to save files.

The save as file dialog is usually offering a few file formats a document can be saved in. This limitation can be overridden by putting the name and file extension in quotation marks.

windows explorer

It is therefor possible to save information in different data formats even if they are not supported by the software program. It is even possible to select data formats that are not compatible at all with the data. A text document could be saved as an excel document or zip file. This will obviously throw an error when trying to open the file unless the right viewer is selected.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/12/how-to-save-files-in-different-formats/feed/ 2