A small arrow will appear in the column header to indicate which column is being used to sort, and whether the sort is ascending or descending. When you've decided what columns should be displayed you can sort the information in the details pane in ascending or descending order by clicking a column's header. By pulling down the View menu you can see that the available views include: Icons, List, Details, Tiles, and Content. The details pane can be presented in one of several views. Most people tend to turn off the preview pane since a thumbnail preview is shown in the status area. You can indicate which of these main elements you'd like displayed by pulling down the Organize | Layout menu and either checking or clearing the corresponding menu item.
#Windows 7 details pane windows#
When you launch Windows Explorer, you'll see that there are four main elements to the window. Arrow indicating that the pane is displayed in ascending order by name. You can even indicate the left-to-right ordering of the columns by moving particular columns up and down via the More button on the Context menu. Right-click a column header, and you are presented with a list of what columns are available for display. You can also select which columns are to be displayed in the details pane. Grouping by different attributes of the files (Date, Type, Size, etc.) can make things easier to find. This is done by right-clicking an empty area of the details pane and, from the resulting Context menu, selecting the Group By option. The details pane can be presented in one of several views as listed in the Layout group: Extra large icons, Large icons, Medium icons, Small icons, List, and Details.Īnother way to customize the Explorer window is by grouping items together. The Panes group also allows you to modify the details pane to show either the preview or details of a selected file/folder by clicking the Preview pane or Details pane, respectively. You can modify the navigation pane by clicking the drop-down arrow next to the Navigation pane tool in the Panes group.
You can indicate which of these main elements you'd like displayed by displaying the View tab of File Explorer.