View Options

Select View/Folder Options and click on the General tab.
The dialog box shown below will appear.

This allows you to specify how your windows work when you open different folders.

• Click in the radio button next to the second option - Classic Style. The button should have a black dot in it.
• Click on Apply (if the button is not greyed out).
• Click on OK.

C disk.

• Open the Windows folder.
• Open the Start Menu folder.
• Notice how each folder is open in its own window. Your screen should look similar to that below.

While we have these windows open, we will look at the options for arranging windows in the taskbar shortcut menu.

Click with the right mouse button on a grey area of the taskbar (not the Quick Launch toolbar or one of the buttons) to bring up the shortcut menu.

• This toolbar has various options for arranging your windows on your computer screen.
• Select the Cascade Windows option. Your screen will appear similar to that shown below.
  

• Close the Start Menu folder
• Click right on the taskbar and select the Tile Windows Vertically option from the shortcut menu. Your screen will appear similar to that shown below.
  

• Click right on the taskbar and select the Tile Windows Horizontally option. Your screen will appear similar to that shown below.
  

Click right on the taskbar and select the Undo Tile option. This will undo the last tile option you chose.
• Click right on the taskbar and select the Minimise All Windows option. All your open windows will be minimised.
• Restore all your windows.

If you have opened many windows that are all related (ie all opened using the same program, such as My Computer) you can shut all the windows at once.

• Hold down the SHIFT key.
• Click on the Close button of the last window you opened (the Windows folder). All the related windows will close.

The windows close from whichever window you clicked the Close button in back to and including the original program window.

• Open My Computer again. Adjust the window size as necessary
• Select View/Folder Options/General again.
• Click on the first option, Web Style. The radio button for this option should have a black dot in it.
• Click on Apply.
• Click on OK. You will notice that your desktop has changed to dark blue. All icon names are now underlined as they are on the Internet.
Open the C disk icon by clicking once on its underlined name..
• Open the Windows folder in the same way.
• Open the Start Menu folder in the same way.
• Notice how each folder is opening in the same window. Your screen should look similar to that below.

You can return to the folders that you opened to get to this folder by using the Up One Level button on the toolbar.

• Click on this button to return to the Windows folder.
• Keep clicking until you arrive back at the My Computer window.
• Select View/Folder Options/General again.
• Click on the third option, Custom. The radio button for this option should have a black dot in it.
• Click on Settings to show the following dialogue box.
  

• Select the options you want.
• Click on OK. You will be returned to the Folder Options window.
• Click on Apply and then OK. Your windows will operate according to the settings you chose.
• Experiment with different settings. When you are finished, select the settings you like and close the dialogue box. Make sure you are at the My Computer window.