"Explorer" - built-in file Windows manager. It consists of a menu "Start", desktop and taskbar, and is designed to work with folders and files in Windows.

We use Explorer every time we work at the computer. This is what it looks like:

Let's look at different options for getting started with this section of the system.

Method 1: Taskbar

The Explorer icon is located in the taskbar. Click on it and a list of your libraries will open.

Method 2: “Computer”

Open "Computer" on the menu "Start".

Method 3: Standard programs

On the menu "Start" open "All programs", then "Standard" and select "Conductor".

Method 4: Start Menu

Right click on the icon "Start". From the menu that appears, select "Open File Explorer".

Method 5: "Run"

On your keyboard, press "Win+R", a window will open "Run". In it, enter

and press "OK" or "Enter".

Method 6: Through “Search”

In the search box write "Conductor".

It is also possible in English. Need to find "Explorer". To prevent the search from returning unnecessary Internet Explorer, you should add the file extension: "Explorer.exe".

Method 7: Hotkeys

Pressing special (hot) keys will also launch Explorer. For Windows this is "Win+E". Convenient because it opens a folder "Computer", not libraries.

Method 8: Command Line

IN command line you need to write:
explorer.exe

Conclusion

You can launch the file manager in Windows 7 different ways. Some of them are very simple and convenient, others are more difficult. However, such a variety of methods will help open Explorer in absolutely any situation.

The Explorer shortcut is a very useful tool that can be placed on the taskbar. Using it, you can quickly go to the “Library” (it contains video, documents, images and music folders). This is also a quick way to get into local drives or other folders that are on the computer.

You can either add the Explorer shortcut to the taskbar or remove it (read more about how to add program shortcuts to the taskbar). To add or remove just open any folder on your computer, then right-click on it (on the taskbar) and select the command “ Remove a program from the taskbar»/« Pin a program to the taskbar».

In this article, I'll show you how to customize the Explorer shortcut so that when you click on it, it will open any other folder you want rather than Library. To do this you need:

1. Right-click on the shortcut " Conductor" Then right-click again on the command “ Conductor » from the context menu that opens. Next, click “ Properties ».

2. The dialog box “ Properties: Explorer" In field " An object» the path to the library is specified. For example, let's make it so that when you click on the "Explorer" shortcut, " Local disk D" or "Local drive C".

"Local drive D":

%windir%\explorer.exe /e, d:\

"Local drive C":

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Designed for ease of working with files. It is a two-window interface.

The left part displays the tree structure of computers, disks, folders and files, and the right part displays the contents of the current folder.

Those. on the left side you see everything you have on your computer, and
By clicking on any of the folders, you will immediately see their contents on the right. Those. you don’t have to remember and search for a long time to find out where you have everything.

The concept of a folder in Windows Explorer is somewhat different from the concept of a directory. Most folders display the contents of a specific directory file system, but there are also special folders, the contents of which do not have a real location on the disk, but depend on the settings operating system. These folders include:

• "My Computer" - contains available to the user storage devices, as well as links to “My Documents” folders different users, to the “Control Panel” folder, as well as to some information input devices (scanners, cameras, etc.)
• “Control Panel” - contains a list of links to programs that can be used to configure the operating system.
• “Trash” is a system folder to prevent accidental deletion of files. Files moved to the Recycle Bin are deleted after executing the Empty Recycle Bin command.
• “Desktop” - contains both a list of files located in the “Desktop” directory current user, and folders missing from this directory: “My Computer”, “My Documents”, “Trash” and “Network Neighborhood”.

Called as follows: Start - All Programs - Accessories - Explorer.

After pressing this combination of buttons you will see something like the following. By default, the cursor will highlight the My Documents folder and show its contents.

Now, for example, let's go to another folder. For example, Games. As you can see, its contents are immediately displayed on the right. The game is there.

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Similarly, you can check other folders on your computer.

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Hello everyone. So I don’t even know what to tell you about what kind of program Explorer is. The fact is that it is, as it were, part of Windows, and almost any Windows, whether Windows XP or Windows 10. Explorer is not even a program, it is precisely a part of Windows, it is a component, so to speak, that is needed so that you had easy access to files. To make it convenient to search for files and generally navigate among folders.

The Explorer program doesn’t even have its own process in the task manager, there isn’t even a folder where it is installed, because the Explorer program seems to exist, but only in words. But what kind of nonsense is all this? I can’t say for sure here, but it seems to me that the Explorer program is part of the Windows shell, that is, part of the explorer. Not to be confused with Internet Explorer, this is a Windows browser! This Explorer itself runs under the explorer.exe process, it is in the task manager, it’s clear that you shouldn’t end this process, otherwise everything will be lost. Literally everything, the Start menu and open folders and everything in general, because Explorer is a Windows shell!

So, look, this is how I would say it, and this is the Explorer program:

So you see there are a lot of folders here? Well, so that you don’t have difficulties running through them, so that it’s convenient to watch them, that’s why you need an Explorer. It's like he's yours personal assistant, well, figuratively speaking.

Here is an example of an old-style Explorer, so to speak, I don’t even know what kind of ancient Windows it is, either Windows XP, or something even older, but this is not particularly important, in general, look at this Explorer:

As you can see, in principle, not the same thing, but very similar. Just so you understand, did you travel by train? Well, there’s a guide there too! Well, what is it for? To say that it’s convenient for you to travel, well, roughly speaking, in short, he helps you, as it were. Here is also the explorer in Windows, it kind of helps you navigate through folders to make it easier for you. Well, I hope now it’s clear what kind of Explorer program this is? I hope so, although I agree that I explained it a little strangely..

Is it possible to remove Explorer? No guys, this is not possible, to remove it, you need to cut out the Windows shell altogether. And without it, you simply simply won’t be able to work in Windows, not at all.

How can I launch Explorer? It’s very simple, to do this you can just call up the Start menu and write the word Explorer at the bottom, and then select it:

Here is another picture, here I think you will also understand everything, well, this is to give as much information as possible, so I’m showing you this picture, look:

This means that in the Start menu, if you open the All Programs menu and select Accessories, you will see the Explorer program there, actually here it is:

By the way, even if you right-click on this conductor, then select Properties from the menu:

Then the Properties: Explorer window will appear, here you can only make sure that Explorer is running under the control of the Windows Explorer shell, which in turn is already running under the explorer.exe process, in general, this is the window, look:

You can also click the File Location button here, well, to understand where this Explorer sits. If you click, the system folder C:\Windows will open, and the explorer.exe file will be highlighted there (but as you already know, this is a Windows shell file):

True, there is a small correction here, you may not have C:\Windows, but for example D:\Windows, well, what I mean is that you have system disk may have a completely different letter.

Oh, guys, I found another picture, here it is written very briefly and very clearly what Explorer is, look:

And here is another picture, it talks about how to search for files in Explorer, look in general:

But here we mean how to search for files in Windows XP Explorer. But in Windows 7 they made it even simpler, you just need to do this, look, you are in some folder or on a disk, right? So you need to find something? You press the F3 button and write what you need to find! The field where you need to write, it will activate itself and will wait for you to write there. Well, I pressed the F3 button and the search field was immediately activated, here it is, look:

Do you see the word utorrent there? I used to look for everything related to the uTorrent torrent downloader, that is, here, so to speak, the history is saved for convenience.

Here is another picture, you know, there will be very useful information, look:

And do you know what happens? There is an error like this:

Here's another picture of the same Explorer error:

So guys, I’ll say right away that there is a way to eliminate this error, well, that is universal method, then it seems to me that there is none. The fact is that this error can be caused either by some program, or simply by the error itself in Windows. That is, there could be a lot of reasons. You can try to find the reason, if some program is to blame, then this is good, which means you need to resolve the issue with the program. If it is Windows itself, then this is bad, you can check Windows itself for errors, for this you must have either an installation flash drive with Windows or an installation disk. Why do you need this? The fact is that there is a kind of Windows check, during which all broken files, well, roughly speaking, all these files will be replaced with original ones, which will be taken from installation disk. So how can I run this command? Look, press Win + R, then the Run window will appear, you write there cmd command, after which the command line will launch. Then you write something like sfc /scannow on the command line, press enter and wait. Well, this is true, you know, it may or may not help, but you can try it just in case. If you have no errors, then the command line will have something like this:

Well, I’ve gone a little off topic, but maybe what I wrote above will be useful to you

And one more thing, guys! If you have an error like this with the conductor, something strange and muddy, then do you know what to do? I'm not saying what it is The best way, but if possible, it is better to reinstall Windows, because it may take you a lot of time to solve this error... just a lot...

So what else do I want to say? You might be wondering, does File Explorer even have settings? Despite the fact that this program does not have its own process, there is not even a folder where it is installed, and as you already understood, this is all because it is part of the Explorer shell, well, despite this, the settings and Explorer are still there! Or maybe these are not Explorer settings, but Explorer settings? Hmm, I can’t answer for sure, okay, I think it’s not that important anymore! So look, to get into the settings, you need to hold down the Win + R buttons and write the following command there:

Then click OK, after which the Control Panel will open, there you will find the Folder Options icon and launch it:

Then the following window will open:

There are all sorts of settings here, you can view them and adjust something here, so to speak. More useful and interesting options are hidden on the View tab:

There are checkboxes about displaying or hiding system files, about displaying file extensions, well, in general there are a lot of options, it’s worth looking through them and maybe customizing something, so to speak, for yourself, well, you get the idea

Well guys, it seems like I showed you everything? You know, I’ll show you one last time Windows Explorer 10, look what it is like:

As for me, it is made very conveniently and beautifully, or so it seems to me. I'm probably strange, but I generally like Windows 10, although many users consider it buggy and unfinished..

This is what you think will happen if you take it and delete it... no, not Explorer, not Explorer, but if you delete Internet Explorer, this is what you think will happen? But that one is not so simple, the fact is that if you delete it in Windows 7, there will be problems, I wrote about this. But the funny thing is that if you remove Internet Explorer from Windows 10, then there won’t seem to be any problems, well, you can see for yourself, I wrote about it here. But I have a thought, maybe if you uninstall Internet Explorer in Windows 7 in the same way as I uninstalled it in Windows 10, then maybe there wouldn’t be any problems... these are just thoughts out loud...

In general, guys, that’s all, I hope that everything was clear to you, and if something is wrong, then please excuse me. Good luck in life and may everything go well for you

30.12.2016

A Windows program called Explorer is the most common file manager, however, it has quite interesting capabilities that few people know or guess about. In principle, the question of how to launch Explorer has an answer that is roughly imagined by the vast majority of users. But for some reason, many people use the most primitive methods for this, which often look very clumsy.

How to launch Explorer in the standard way on different systems?

Typically, users new to Windows OS follow standard instructions. In their understanding, the question of how to launch Explorer comes down to finding the appropriate application in the main Start menu.

But it’s unnecessary steps. You need to press the start button, find the programs section in the menu, select standard applications(or another section depending on the OS modification) and only then click on the name of the application to be launched. Agree, this takes quite a lot of time.

Alternative launch as a means of simplifying work

Unfortunately, many people simply do not realize that when you click on the “Start” button, you can simply change the button from left to right. An additional menu will appear in which you will immediately see required program. But this method, according to many, is quite inconvenient.

The same time-consuming method can be called using the “Run” console, in which the command to call explorer is written. You can also use search bar main menu, in which you need to enter the name of the program (in our case it is “Explorer” without quotes).

But how to launch Explorer in the most in a fast way? To do this at any Windows system a special combination + E is provided (in the Russian layout - the letter “U”). In this case, the program is called regardless of what language or keyboard layout is used in the system. this moment. This method can be called the most convenient, even for those cases when the application itself for some reason failed.

How to launch Explorer in Task Manager?

Another technique for starting a program is to use standard means tracking and managing all processes, called the “Task Manager”. You can launch “Explorer” through “Dispatcher” quite simply.

To do this, in systems below the tenth modification, use the process menu, where you need to create a new task, and enter explorer in the program launch line, as was done in the “Run” console. In Windows 10, you can launch the Explorer task directly from file menu, where you select to create a new task.

Restarting a program if it crashes

Unfortunately, Explorer and its associated service, Explorer.exe, have a tendency to quit unexpectedly when some software glitch occurs. You should not confuse the service itself and the executing service, although they are called by the same command.

If a service suddenly stops working abnormally, you can use several methods to restart it. In the simplest version, the question of how to launch Explorer, and with it the general system process, again, is to use the combination Ctrl + Shift + Esc on the keyboard. It calls the standard “Task Manager”, in which you need to repeat the steps described above.

In the same way you can use quick call console “Run” through the combination Win + R, then enter the English name of the process.

If you first want to open the main Start menu, you need to press Ctrl + Esc and the right arrow. In the same menu while holding Ctrl keys+ Shift, you can use the shutdown item or right-click on a free area of ​​the “Taskbar”, and from the section that appears, select the exit line from “Explorer”, and then restart the service through the “Task Manager” or the “Run” console, as shown higher.

Conclusion

As you can see from the above material, you can call the standard “Explorer” or restart the Explorer system service using a fairly large number of methods. But some of them are not always justified. What advice can you give to the average user? It seems that the simplest and fastest method is to use the Win + E keys. The remaining solutions are best left for those cases when a program or service for some reason refuses to function normally and shuts down urgently.

Which method to use for restarting is up to everyone to decide for themselves. But the best options are calling the “Run” console or the “Task Manager”. The second option looks more preferable, since here you can simultaneously control other processes, as well as forcefully terminate those that freeze or cause errors in the system related specifically to the Explorer.exe service.