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Windows 10 limits my file name to LESS than the standard 256 [duplicate]
The entire filename in question is only 207 characters long. I just want to add a "1" to the front of it, and it will not allow me to type anything into it.
I have tried the following:
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Enable Sort by Date Modified for all Win 10 Picture Folders
Is it possible to modify the registry or something to make Sort by Date Modified available as a default option for sorting image folders across everything in Windows?
I can enable it one by one folder ...
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Folder Shortcut Infotips don't Display Target Folder Info
How to display the same infotip as the original folder in the folder shortcuts infotip? I'm aware of how to add properties to shortcut infotips via Regedit, but this approach only allows 7 properties (...
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Disable the VS Code preview pane integration in Windows Explorer
Whenever I select a file while the preview pane is active, VS Code tries to display it. How can I get rid of this integration? I searched around but strangely didn't see any trace of this feature ...
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Right clicking caused windows to corrupt
This has happened 3 or 4 times now
This time I right clicked on my desktop and everything got a white faded out look. Task manager showed Exploere.exe was not responding and rebooting take me to the ...
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Fairly new computer, windows 10 pro, not able to open cmd in a specific path by typing cmd in the address bar of file explorer
I used to be able to do this on my laptop. But now I have a desktop and when I try this, it just shows C:\>
instead of being in the path I want it to be in. I have no idea how to fix this or where ...
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What could be causing pics and vids transferred from an iPhone 11 to a Windows 10 laptop via Explorer to occasionally have 0 bytes after the transfer?
I copy some photos and videos from an iPhone 11 to my laptop running Windows 10 via Windows Explorer. The iPhone Is connected via a lightening to USB-C cable.
From time to time, the copied photos and ...
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Windows sort folders differently now, and I would like the old behavior
Windows used to always show the subdirectories (aka folders) first, regardless of sort order. It seems that several years ago, this was changed. I would like the original behavior where folders are ...
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How to right click mouse without focusing an item underneath cursor in File Explorer window?
I want to achieve that even if there is an item underneath cursor.
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How to Display "Keywords" Property in Windows File Explorer's Details View Columns?
Following this post, I have a PowerShell script that uses ExifTool to add metadata to PDF files. Specifically, it adds a tag to a PDF's "Keywords" property. The script is available here on ...
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Unable to Add Tags to Files in Windows: Missing "Tags" Property in Details Tab
Following this Tweet, I'm trying to organize my files by adding tags in Windows, as outlined in these instructions. However, I've encountered an issue where the "Tags" property does not ...
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How Can I Customize the Categories and Items in the Windows 10 File Explorer Navigation Pane?
I'm looking to modify the "Navigation Pane" in Windows 10's File Explorer to better suit my workflow. I've attached a screenshot of the current state of my Navigation Pane. I want to add new ...
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In Windows, how do I retrieve the data of which folders I most use?
Windows tracks which folders I use then displays the most used one in Quick Access beneath the pinned items.
How do I retrieve this data?
1508457, 1072785, 885073 do not address this.
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View archives in a separate Explorer window?
Using Windows 10 22H2.
Open Windows Explorer and navigate to a .zip or .cab. Double-click the file and Windows displays the files inside the archive as if the archive were a folder. This happens in ...
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Folder names and file names text wrapping in wrong position
File names and folder names on windows 10 - the text wraps down to the next line and it is visually distracting and, frankly, horrible to read.
How do I stop the text from wrapping? Letters of the ...
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