Microsoft is eradicating some Folder Choices in Home windows 11

Microsoft launched a brand new Insider construct to the Home windows 11 developer channel this week. The construct makes a variety of adjustments; certainly one of them removes a number of choices in Folder Choices.

Folder Choices permits customers of the working system to customise File Explorer habits. There they might allow the exhibiting of hidden recordsdata, disable the terrible default possibility of hiding file extensions for recognized file sorts, and make a number of different necessary adjustments.

Home windows 11 customers might entry the Folder Choices within the following approach:

1. Open File Explorer with a click on on the icon on the taskbar.
2. Choose the three-dots menu and choose Choices from the context menu.
3. Change to the View tab.

The listing of superior settings opens and customers might allow or disable sure options with clicks in checkboxes.

The eliminated Folder Choices

Microsoft eliminated a number of superior settings within the Folder Choices within the newest improvement construct. These are faraway from the Folder Choices interface, however should be set by way of the Home windows Registry.

Observe that there’s a probability that Microsoft continues to make adjustments to Folder Choices and that it might reintroduce a few of the eliminated settings in a future construct earlier than the adjustments land in Secure.

For now, the next superior settings are not accessible:

1. At all times present icons, by no means thumbnails. (default off)
2. Show file icon on thumbnail. (default on)
3. Show file dimension data in folder suggestions. (default on)
4. Disguise folder merge conflicts. (default on)
5. Disguise protected working system recordsdata (Really useful). (default on)
6. Present drive letters. (default on)
7. Present encrypted or compressed NTFS recordsdata in shade. (default off)
8. Present pop-up description for folder and desktop gadgets. (default on)
9. Use Sharing Wizard (Really useful). (default on)

These choices are not listed ion Folder Choices, however they are often modified utilizing the Home windows Registry.

Right here is how that’s executed:

At all times present icons, by no means thumbnails

1. Registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced
2. Seek for IconsOnly. If it doesn’t exist, right-click on Superior and choose New > Dword (32-bit) Worth. Identify it IconsOnly.
3. Set it to 0 to point out thumbnails, or to 1 to cover thumbnails.

Show file icon on thumbnail

1. Registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced
2. Seek for ShowTypeOverlay. If it doesn’t exist, right-click on Superior and choose New > Dword (32-bit) Worth. Identify it ShowTypeOverlay.
3. Set it to 0 to disable exhibiting the file icon on thumbnails, or to 1 to allow it.

Show file dimension data in folder suggestions

1. Registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced
2. Seek for FolderContentsInfoTip. If it doesn’t exist, right-click on Superior and choose New > Dword (32-bit) Worth. Identify it FolderContentsInfoTip.
3. Set it to 0 to not show dimension data in folder suggestions, or to 1 to show the data.

Disguise folder merge conflicts

1. Registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced
2. Seek for HideMergeConflicts.  If it doesn’t exist, right-click on Superior and choose New > Dword (32-bit) Worth. Identify it HideMergeConflicts.
3. Set the worth to 0 to disable the function and don’t present merge conflicts, or to 1 to allow the function.

Disguise protected working system recordsdata (Really useful)

1. Registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced
2. Seek for ShowSuperHidden. If it doesn’t exist, right-click on Superior and choose New > Dword (32-bit) Worth. Identify it ShowSuperHidden.
3. Set the worth to 0 to cover protected working system recordsdata, or to 1 to point out these recordsdata.

Present drive letters

1. Registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer
2. Seek for ShowDriveLettersFirst. If it doesn’t exist, right-click on Superior and choose New > Dword (32-bit) Worth. Identify it ShowDriveLettersFirst.
3. Set its worth to 0 to point out all drive letters after drive labels, to 1 to point out solely community drive letters earlier than drive labels, to 2 to cover all drive letters, or to 4 to point out all drive letters earlier than drive labels.

Present encrypted or compressed NTFS recordsdata in shade

1. Registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced
2. Seek for ShowEncryptCompressedColor. If it doesn’t exist, right-click on Superior and choose New > Dword (32-bit) Worth. Identify it ShowEncryptCompressedColor.
3. Set its worth to 1 to point out encrypted or compressed NTFS recordsdata in shade, or to 0 to disable this.

Present pop-up description for folder and desktop gadgets

1. Registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer
2. Seek for ShowInfoTip. If it doesn’t exist, right-click on Superior and choose New > Dword (32-bit) Worth. Identify it ShowInfoTip.
3. Set this worth to 0 to disable the function, or to 1 to allow it and present a popup description for folder and desktop gadgets.

Use Sharing Wizard (Really useful)

1. Registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorer
2. Seek for SharingWizardOn.
3. If it doesn’t exist, right-click on Superior and choose New > Dword (32-bit) Worth. Identify it SharingWizardOn.
4. Set its worth to 0 to disable the function, or to 1 to allow it.