文件类型
这个制表符包含窗口知道，并且配置节目打开他们所有文件类型的名单，如果您在他们的像双击。


当图象显示，如果.doc文件在MS-Word被双击对此开始。 您能改变同文件类型联系在一起通过选择它的词条和按‘变动…’的计划 按钮。

偶尔地，如果您不再，使用有些类型的文件您也许想要从名单删除文件类型。 突出词条为文件类型并且按‘删除’按钮。 这将减少大小的 登记 (包含大多设置为窗口和其他应用)的文件，但不由有的足够对表现的重大冲击。 如此，可能性是您大概将想要不理会这张名单。

有创造一个新的文件类型的选择为名单，使用‘新的’按钮，但坦率地，您是好双击在…

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继续的看法设置


皮被保护的操作系统的文件(被推荐)
默认情况下这个选择被选择，保护用户免受他们自己，象在出现的报警信息解释，如果您设法关掉它。


如果您在这个对话箱点击‘是’您能看这些特别系统文件。 图象在Windows需要跑的展示各种各样的系统文件之下，例如‘是交换文件处理记忆的窗口用户的pagefile’。 因为设置建议，多数用户将想要留给这个选择被选择。



发射文件夹窗口在一个分开的过程中
这个设置，如果选择，改变方式窗口跑不同的事例 探险家 通过跑他们在分开的过程中，因此，如果你碰撞其他应该持续跑。 您也许想要选择这，但根据用户经验它似乎产生少许变化。


处理的对网页和...

View Settings
The 'View' tab has two sections. In the first section, 'Folder Views' you can either set Explorer to show all folders according to the current settings using the 'Apply to All Folders' button; or, by clicking the 'Reset All Folders' button, Explorer can be set to display folders as they were when Windows was first installed - this excludes any changes made to the toolbars.


The second section has a number of 'Advanced settings' to change the look and the behaviour of Explorer.


Automatically search for network folders and printer
If this setting is selected Explorer will hunt round the local network for any shared folders or printers. The effects of this setting will be negligible for home users or anyone who is not on a large local area network within a company or other organisation.


Display the size information in folder tips
If this setting is ticked, Explorer will show the size of the contents of a folder if you hover the mouse over it. As shown in this picture:



Display simple folder view in Explorer's...

In the 'Tools' menu of any Explorer window there is a 'Folder Options' item. This opens a dialog box that enables us to change the behaviour and the look of Explorer windows. This series of articles explore these various settings. The first part will deal with the 'General' tab.

Note: This article refers to Windows Explorer, the in-built file manager program, not to Internet Explorer, the web browser.

General Settings
The 'General' page has three settings, and a 'Restore Defaults' button that you can press to return to Windows' original settings.


Tasks
The first setting, 'Tasks', can be used to either show or hide the left hand pane in Explorer windows. The default setting - 'Show common tasks in folders' -will make Explorer windows look like this:


Selecting 'Use Windows classic folders' will make the windows look like this:


Browse folders
This setting can be used to change the way that Explorer responds to a double-click on a folder. If you...

What is an Operating System?

An operating system, or OS, is software that enables you to operate the computer. It manages the opening of files, the monitor display, printing, access to networks, and so on. The chances are you are using a version of Windows as your operating system, but this is not the only OS available. Others include the various versions of linux (such as Ubuntu) which are generally available for free, and OSX, which is the latest operating system for Apple Macs. The various operating systems will tend to look different from one another, they will store files in different ways, and will also run different programs. So, a program written for Windows will not work on Linux unless it is run through an emulator or another piece of software that acts like a translator, such as WINE.


What on Earth is a GUI?

GUI (pronounced 'gooey') stands for Graphical User Interface, and this refers to all the visual elements of an operating system, all the windows, icons, menus, buttons, tick boxes, etc. The user can interact with each of these elements using a mouse or other pointing device, which helped to...

When you are using Windows Explorer - the file management program that opens when you double-click on ‘My Computer’ and the like - you can move to the parent folder by clicking the back-space key.

By ‘parent folder’ I mean the folder that contains the one you are looking at. In the following image we see that the ‘parent folder’ of Adobe is Program Files.

Another way to achieve the same thing is to press the F4 key followed by the up arrow, and then Return.

Note for Vista users: using the Backspace key in Vista mimics the use in web browsers, that is, it takes you to the previous folder you looked at. To go to the parent directory using Vista, hold down Alt and press the Up cursor.