What is Windows 10, 8 and 7 Explorer, its parts and functions and what is it for?

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A great variety of things we can do through computers, but these alone would be just an inert drawer. For this they are programmed with software packages for the management of specific operations.

Similarly, these OS packages are managed via a file and folder explorer, but we will explain what it is, what its parts are, you can also download and use Windows Explorer.




What is a Windows Explorer?

Windows owes its existence to Bill Gates for the years 1981 to 1985, but the Windows Explorer window appears thanks to Microsoft for the year 1995. Windows Explorer is the official administrator of work Microsoft operating Windows, takes care of the management of your computer, that is, your files, folders, documents and more.

What is Windows 10, 8 and 7 Explorer, its parts and functions and what is it for?

What is Windows Explorer for?

Now we will see the best alternatives for Windows Explorer, it will also help you manage your files, save, copy, delete, search, replace, rename information in an easier way and above all with quick access. Also, you can preview the information content from there and in the most orderly and captivating way possible.

Le parts that compose it are the following: buttons with the forward, back and up arrows, an address bar, a quick search box, a toolbar, located on the second line, which directs us from top to bottom, a navigation panel that located in the central left part of the window, files such as: folders, devices and saved drives or documents, located in the central right part of the window and a details panel that you will find in the lower part of the window.




His duties?

Its functions are to take care of the management of your computer's disk drives, the management of folders and files, of the creating or deleting new documents or folders.

Furthermore, you can have access to an FTP server, you can also delete, move and even copy directories, these are just some of the basic functions of your Windows Explorer, let's see what other functions it can perform.

What is Windows 10, 8 and 7 Explorer, its parts and functions and what is it for?

Encrypt folders and files

It means that if install Windows in one of its latest versions, on an NTFS partition, you can hide them as it were. So that you can save your most important folders or files, so that you don't want anyone else to be able to access them, just to be sure that someone deletes them or takes them by mistake.

Just go to Properties, right-click on the window, select advanced options, then click encrypts the content to protect the data and finally accept. This option is not that new, it is available for Windows versions Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, take advantage of it and activate it.

Massif renamed

THE Windows Explorer will help you rename files or documents, once you get it back there in the window, you can do it from one element to one hundred of the same or both, it's very easy. How you do it?


One way would be, select the document, press the right button, select change name, enter the new name and voila, the name will be changed to the new one immediately.


Hidden files

Through this option you will be able to see your hidden files, you can do the following by going to the control panel, then to appearance and customization, then options in Windows Explorer and finally the Show all hidden files and folders option.


In Windows 8, 8.1 and Windows 10 you can see them by clicking on the hidden option, similarly, you want to know, you can also install Windows 10 for free using serial or generic keys.

Share files

From this option you can share your files, just select the file sharing tab, you can also perform other tasks such as printing, compressing information, burning to disc, among others, sending faxes.

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