Computer Act!ve - UK (2022-05-11)

Issue 631 • 11 – 24 May 2022 39

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A useful feature in Files App is its ability

to link through to Command Prompt,

so you don’t have to navigate Windows’

file system using text commands. Rather than

opening Command Prompt from the Start menu,

locate the folder you need to work in, then right-click

an empty space and click ‘Open in CMD’^1. A new

Command Prompt window will open showing the

specified directory.

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Keeping track of your tabs can be
difficult if you have lots of them open at
once – just as it is when you open too
many pages in your browser. Click the ‘Vertical
tab flyout’ button^1 to display them all in a
scrolling list, which saves you clicking through
the tabs at the top of the window. To close a tab,
click the ‘x’^2 beside its name in the list or,
if it’s visible at the top of the window, on the
tab itself^3.

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Files App has tidied away many of the usual toolbar

options into hidden panels. Click the ‘Selection

options’ button^1 to reveal checkboxes beside files in

the main pane^2 , making selection easier, or to invert an

existing selection so selected files are deselected and vice versa.

Click the Layout button^3 to switch between the familiar

Windows layout options, and to specify whether file extensions

and hidden files should be visible^4.

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When dragging files from one folder to another in
Windows’ default File Explorer, you have to open two
Explorer windows side by side. That’s not the case with
Files App. Click the cog^1 on the Files toolbar, followed by
Multi-tasking^2. Now click the switch beside ‘Enable dual pane
view’^3. Close the settings window. Right-click a folder in Files
and select ‘Open in secondary pane’ to show the two folders
side by side in the same window.

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