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For example, if a folder contains many large video files totaling hundreds of gigabytes, and the Window Explorer pane is in Details view mode showing a property contained within the metadata (for example Date, Length, Frame Height), Windows Explorer might have to search the contents of the whole file for the meta data.
Thumbnail support for .HTM, .HTML, .MHT and .URL files has been removed in Windows Vista. [5] The Explorer thumbnail handler and metadata property handler for .AVI and .WAV files (Shmedia.dll) has been removed. Ctrl+Enter on the selected folder no longer opens it in a new Explorer window. Tiles view only shows the name, type and the size of items.
IDeskBand interface and Explorer Bars are no longer supported in Windows Explorer; they are still supported in Internet Explorer. [6] In Folder Options, the Remember each folder's view settings option that allowed Windows Explorer to retain folder icon view modes and icon sizes on a per-folder basis has been removed. [7]
It was first introduced in Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 and was renamed My Network Places in Windows 2000 and later, before being replaced in Windows Vista. My Network Places maintains an automatically updated history of computers which the user has accessed before, by default placed in a folder called NetHood, found in the user's user profile.
Windows XP introduced a large number of metadata properties [7] which are shown as columns in the "Details" view of Explorer, in the new Tiles view in Explorer, on the Summary tab in a file's properties, in a file's tooltip and on the Explorer status bar when a single file is selected. Users also gain the ability to sort by any property which ...
Small Icons view was removed from Windows Explorer. [10] Web view in folders was disabled by default but can be reinstated by editing the registry. Additionally, the Customize This Folder Wizard was removed. [11] Due to the removal of Web view, pie charts showing disk space are no longer available immediately upon opening a drive. [12]
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Folder Options (control folders) (rundll32.exe shell32.dll, Options_RunDLL 0) This item allows for configuration of how folders and files are presented in Windows Explorer. More specifically it allows the user to specify general settings like whether folders open in a new window or the existing window and whether the common tasks pane is shown ...