Fix Slow Windows 7 Folder Loading Time

Slow folder loading time in Windows 7? You might experience this for those big-size folders that have a large number of video, photo, document, or audio files. There is a simple way to fix this. First of all, go ahead to the slow loading folder and open its properties window by right-clicking it and select “Properties”. Then, select the “Customize” tab. More »

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View Windows Explorer in Full Screen

Viewing Windows explorer in full screen is useful if you happen to have lots of files and folders to be processed and that you want to be focused on the window. You won’t see the option to display the window in full screen because it is hidden by default. Depending on the option you take, you can view it in full screen simply either by pressing a shortcut key or button.

View Windows explorer in full screen with a shortcut key

Why move your mouse to hit a full-screen button if you can do it simply by hitting a single button on your keyboard? Just press F11 and the window will be displayed in full screen. Press F11 once more to restore the size.

View Windows explorer in full screen with a button

Some people are reluctant to memorize shortcuts. If this is the case, Windows explorer has a full-screen button that is hidden by default. To display the button you should right-click the toolbar and select “Customize…”.

A small window will open. On the left panel, scroll down until you find the button. Select it and click the “Add” button to move it to the right panel.

After you move the button, click “Close” to close the window. Now you can find the full-screen button on the toolbar. Click it whenever you want to work with your Windows explorer in full screen mode.

How to make it “more full screen”

Once you press the shortcut key or click the button, the menu bar and taskbar will be hidden from the display, leaving only the toolbar. If you don’t need this toolbar all the time, you can hide it so you will get more space in your full-screen mode.

In full-screen mode, right-click the toolbar and select “Auto-hide”. The toolbar will hidden instantly. To view it you just need to move your mouse to where it is located, which is on the top.

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Create New Folder with Shortcut Key in Windows Explorer

If you ask one of your friends to show how he makes a new folder, he is likely to right-click on the empty background of a folder or drive within Windows explorer and then select the “New”, “Folder” respectively from the right-click menu. To make it ready, he has to give it a name. This is the usual procedure that most people know about to create a new folder.

However, there is always a way to make things faster than usual. Creating a new folder can be done faster by utilizing the available shortcut keys within Windows explorer.

To create a new folder faster, simply press Alt+F followed by W, then hit Enter. Type the name of the new folder and hit Enter once again to make it ready for use. That’s all.

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Minimize Full Screen Games With Shortcut Keys

Running a full screen game and get stuck within because you don’t know how to minimize it while the play is going on? You have no idea about how to minimize the running game without shutting it down? Well, I do have several ways you can use. In case the first one fails, you can try the second or third or others. The similarity of the ways I use here is you minimize the full screen game using a shortcut key.

The Shortcut Keys to Minimize Full Screen Games:

• Press Win+M to minimize all windows.
• Press ALT+SPACEBAR+N to minimize the active windows.
• Use Alt+Tab to switch focus to another application or window, but for this to run you should have an application left in the background. If not, you won’t be able to switch the focus.
• Use Game Minimizer and press F12 every time you want to minimize the full screen game. The hotkey can be changed.

These are the shortcut keys I know. Can anyone let me know other shortcut keys to minimize full screen games without quitting the play?

GameMinimizer homepage

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Deleted Files From USB Not in Recycle Bin?

When you delete files in your USB drives, these files don’t go into the recycle bin. So, you won’t find the files inside the recycle bin in case you accidentally delete files in your removable drives. Microsoft has explained that the files won’t be sent into the recycle bin if they are deleted using one of these deletion actions:

• Deletions from removable disks (CD-RWs, floppy disks, Zip drives, and other removable disks).
• Deletions from remote shares.
• Deletions from compressed (zipped) folders.
• Deletions at the command line.

So, make sure that you really don’t need the files anymore before you delete them. If it still happens anyway, you can try to recover the files using a free file recovery.

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