How to Change Views in Windows Explorer: Introduction

Windows has a built-in file manager called “Windows Explorer” that shows you the files and folders that are on your computer. Windows Explorer works great, but unfortunately, it doesn’t always display your files and folders the same way. This can be really confusing when you [...]

Thumbnails View

The Thumbnails view is a photographers best friend. Select “Thumbnails” from the View menu and you will see previews of your photos (JPG files), organized from left to right. This makes organizing your photos a breeze because you don’t have to open each photo to identify it, and left to right [...]

Tiles View

Though not quite as popular as Thumbnails view, Tiles view is helpful when you need to know the resolution of your photos, but nothing else. Notice the summary that is directly below the title of each photo.

This is helpful if you have lower resolution photos mixed in with [...]

Icons View

Probably my least favorite view mode. I don’t get summaries of resolution or date, it’s organized from left to right (which makes this mode even more difficult to use) and the icons are somewhere in between small and large.

It’s not to say that it is wrong, I [...]

List View

I am a huge fan of List view. This is how most of my folders are setup when I’m not organizing photos. It is organized from top to bottom, and it is easy to find things at a quick glance. So if I sort them alphabetically, “A” is at the top [...]