View Options

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

This allows you to specify whether each folder you open appears in its own window, or whether they all appear in one window.

• Click in the radio button next to the top option - Browse folders using a separate window for each folder. The button should have a black dot in it.

• Click on Apply (if the button is not greyed out).

• Click on OK.

• Open the 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.

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. 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.

• Select View/Options/Folder again.

• Click on the second option, Browse folders by using a single window that changes as you open each folder. The radio button for this option should have a black dot in it.

• Click on Apply.

• Click on OK.

• Open the C disk icon.

• Open the Windows folder.

• Open the Start Menu folder.

• 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.