We think many will agree that when you go to a folder with photos, it is much more convenient when they are displayed not just as icons, but as smaller copies of their contents. This makes finding the image you need easier and faster.

Photos in badges

Not everyone has their operating system configured this way and images in folders are displayed with the same icons.

Icons instead of photos

In this article we will tell you how to make photos in folders visible instead of icons.

Configuring Windows Explorer settings

Regardless Windows versions setting photo previews instead of icons is the same.

To do this, click on the “Explorer Options” icon (Folder Options) there too.

Go to Explorer properties (Folder Options)

In the window that opens, go to the “View” tab and uncheck the “Always display icons, not thumbnails” checkbox.

Uncheck the box

Click “Ok” and check the display of photos in folders. They should start showing up instead of icons.

If this does not happen, then in the folder with photos you need to right-click on any free space and in the menu that opens, select “View” -> “Regular (Large) Icons”.

There is a need to open hidden files and operating system folders, mainly to edit some important system documents.

To do this, you need to know how to make hidden folders visible.

The point is that in all modern versions OS Windows settings by default they assume the so-called “fool protection”.

This means that an inexperienced user simply does not see most of the important system partitions and cannot make potentially dangerous changes to them.

But on the other hand, some fine settings The operating system may require editing of these hidden files.

This article will provide detailed guide, which allows you to implement this procedure in Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10, which are on this moment occupy the lion's share of operating systems used in the commercial and private sector.

Secrets of the Windows 7 system partition

This version of the operating system from Microsoft has taken the palm of popularity from the legendary XP, support for which ended several years ago.

This success is primarily dictated user-friendly interface, in which it is easy to find the necessary settings.

This also applies to the display option hidden folders and files, which is easiest to activate through the taskbar.

• First you need in a standard way get to the taskbar: open Start and select “Control Panel”.

• Then click on the link “Design and personalization”.

Advice! For convenience, you need to select a display method by category.

• In the variety that opens, we need the “Folder Options” category, or, more precisely, its “Show hidden files and folders” option, which speaks for itself.

• In the window that opens called “Folder Options,” expand the “View” tab and at the very bottom of the list of additional options we see the function of showing/hiding special files. All that remains is to set the checkbox to the desired position.

You can get to the “Folder Options” window in Windows 7 in a simpler way: to do this, just open any directory and select “Folder and Search Options” from the “Arrange” drop-down menu.

Advice! If you decide to use this method, by default only hidden files in the current directory will be displayed. To apply this rule to all drives, you must activate the “Apply to folders” option.

Having dealt with the classics, you can move on to more modern systems.

We delve into the intricacies of Windows 8

This version of the operating system is significantly different from Windows 7, which at one time caused many complaints from users.

The changes also affected hidden directories: in Windows 8, there are two types of files and folders that are not visible to the user.

The first is the actual hidden sections. This status is enjoyed not only system files and folders, but also components of various third-party applications.

Moreover, the user himself can assign this type to any object on the disk.

However, this opportunity is often used by malware, which, for example, results in problems with files on a flash drive.

For these two types, the algorithm of actions will be different.

To open regular hidden files and folders, you need to do the following:

• First, you should open “Explorer”, for which you can use the standard shortcut in the “Taskbar”.

• In the folder that opens, in the top settings panel, click on the “View” menu and select the “Show and Hide” function. In the list that opens, you must activate the “Hidden elements” checkbox.
  In the same way, you can assign hidden status to any selected file or folder.

In order to see particularly important system files, you need to make the following settings:

• In the same “View” menu, go to “Options” - “Change folder and search options.”

• As a result, the “Folder Options” settings window will appear, similar to that in Windows 7. Here you should go to the “View” tab and uncheck the “Hide” protected system files checkbox (recommended).

There is another way to get to this window:

• In Start, which in eight has an unusual Metro interface, click on the gear icon (Computer Settings).

• In the menu that opens, you need to click on the lowest link to open the Control Panel, which is familiar to most users.

• In the “Taskbar”, first select the function display method Large (or small) icons, and then click on the “Folder Options” link, which will ultimately give access to the settings window of the same name.

It is also worth considering separately the algorithm for enabling the display of hidden and system elements for Windows 10, since, despite its similarity to the eight, the settings of this OS have their own nuances.

Hidden files and folders in Windows 10

In the top ten, there is the same division of hidden files into regular system ones, therefore the methods for enabling their display are similar to those discussed in the previous section.

To see files and folders with the hidden attribute in the top ten, including on a flash drive or any other external storage device, do the following:

• Open “Start” and launch “Explorer”.

• The appearance of “Explorer” in the top ten is practically no different from Windows 8. Therefore, it operates according to the already known algorithm: View - Show and Hide - set the “Hidden Elements” checkbox to the active position.

In order to see system files and folders, we need to get to the “Explorer Options” function (analogous to the Folder Options option).

• The fastest way to do this is through the search, the icon of which can be found on the “Taskbar”.

Advice! You can also use a keyboard shortcut to access the search. Win+Q.

• By clicking on the search result, we will be taken to the functions window, which we have already encountered several times in this article. Here we are interested in the option “Hide protected system files (recommended), which is located on the View tab.

In conclusion, it is worth saying once again that editing hidden files, especially system files, can cause serious harm shell computer.

Therefore, such changes should be treated as responsibly as possible.

Thematic video:

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I think many people have encountered this when you go to a folder with photos, and instead of a photo (preview), an icon is displayed and to find the right photo you have to open each one, which is not very convenient. Not everyone's operating system is configured to immediately show a photo instead of an icon. Therefore, in this article we will show how to make photos visible in icons.

How to make photo icons visible

It doesn't matter which one operating system you need to make photo icons visible on windows 7, 8, 10 or xp. The whole process is the same on any operating system.

In order for photos to be visible in icons, you need to perform one small operation. To do this, go to the control panel and go to folders settings, may also be called conductor parameters.

In the window that opens, switch to the “View” tab. We look for the option “Always display icons, not thumbnails” in the list and uncheck it.

After that, click the “apply” and “OK” buttons.

Now you can go to the folder with photos and see what we got. If the photos still do not appear, then you just need to switch the view in the folder. This can be done in two ways.

The first way is by clicking on this icon and selecting “Large icons”

And the second way is to right-click in the folder, move the mouse pointer to “View” and select “Large Icons”.