Freedom Scientific a Vispero brand an introduction to Windows 11 and JAWS
and now let's talk about file explorer there's a really important change here in file explorer
so i'm going to press windows e which is the keyboard command
that you've probably used before if you use file explorer windows e
file explorer items view list box items view multi-select list box folders expanded
not selected desktop yes one of six not selected desktop all right so i'm here in file explorer now
i'm going to show you how to navigate this area when you don't have anything selected i'm going to
select something and show you some differences so previously in windows 10 we had in file explorer
we have a ribbon that is just like the ribbon in other microsoft applications like word and excel
and so forth that no longer exists in windows 11 so we don't have the ribbon but we still
can navigate to all the menu options within file explorer using the alt key so i'm going to press
alt view button collapsed so here we have a view button and it said collapsed so i'm going to
expand that menu with the space bar space menu extra large icons and here we have a menu that
we can up and down arrow through i'll press down arrow large icons medium icons small icons list
so right there we have list details details tiles checked tiles checked so by default when you're in
file explorer or any of these folders or anything like that your icons or your options go across you
know you can use your right and left arrow keys if you want that to be up and down one column
you go to list and press enter i'm not going to do that right now but that is where you would go
if you wanted to arrange everything in a list in fact let me do that let's go up details list
enter view button collapsed leaving menus so it said view button collapse leaving menus if we
hadn't made any changes we could just press the escape key and it would have collapsed that menu
but i'm still in the menu bar so i'm going to press right arrow more app bar button so there's a
more app bar we're going to talk about that one in a minute but i'm going to press right arrow again
and we don't get anything so these menus do not wrap around like you're used to probably the
other menus and the ribbon wrapping around when you press right arrow left arrow these do not so
let's go back to the left view button collapsed and that's what we get all right so i'm going
to press escape to get out of the menus escape items view multi-select list box so now let's
down arrow and actually select an option here a folder downloads two of six all right so if i now
let me go ahead and enter on downloads well let's let's hang on let's not do the enter on downloads
so now we're on downloads and let's press the alt key again and see how different this is
copy button so now we get option to copy and we can press the right arrow view button collapsed
we have copy view button collapse we have the view more app bar button and we have that more app
bar button so those are the options we have when we're on a folder before that when we didn't have
a folder or file selected we just had the more app button in the view button or the view menu
now we have copy so now let me press escape escape items view multi-select list box folders expanded
downloads 2 and i'm going to press enter to go into the downloads folder
enter shell folder view items view list box items view multi-select list box earlier
this week expand and i'm going to down arrow zoom installer 2. all right so i wanted to be
on a file so now i'll press the alt key and show you the difference here
new button collapsed all right now we have a new button and that's a that's a menu so let's press
the space bar here space menu folder so here we could create a new folder i'll press down arrow
shortcut a shortcut bitmap image text document compress left for unzipped right current folder
folder and we're back to folder and if you press right and left arrow keys here this is another
difference in the menus that you're probably used to using as well usually when you press the right
and left arrow keys it takes you to the next menu here that does not happen all right so that's the
new menu so i'm going to press escape because i don't want to create anything new escape new
button collapsed leaving and it tells you we're leaving menus i'm going to press right arrow
cut button there's a cut button copy button copy rename button rename share button there's
a share button delete button delete sort button collapsed and here we could sort so if we want
to open this menu spacebar space menu name so we could just we could sort according to name
date modify checked the date it was modified type type and so forth there are a lot of different
options here size things like that so uh press escape escape sort button collapsed leave and i'll
press right arrow view button collapsed and again we have the view button which we've already been
to this menu so i won't go back in there but we'll press right arrow again more button and that's the
last one now this more app bar button is extremely important because it contains other options that
that you might need if you're going to make some changes here and how your folders folders are
displayed for example just a couple of minutes ago we changed the way that the folder was displayed
into list so that it's a straight up and down column it's not you know tiles you don't have to
right and left arrow so now i'm going to press the space bar or actually i'm going to press
down arrow you don't have to press spacebar you can press down arrow on the more button
menu compress to zip file button so here we have lots of options we can compress the zip file
copy path button copy the path of a file select button and that's a very handy thing to be able to
do by the way you can do that in previous versions of windows but it's it's right here in this menu
select all button so we have copy paths button select all button select none button invert
selection button properties button so we have all the options we had in windows 10
but options button here we have an options button less app bar button options button
and that less app bar button if you wanted to collapse it you you could go there but you can
also just press escape so let's go to options i just want to show you quickly what you'll find
there enter leaving menus folder options dialog general page general page open file explorer to
colon combo box quick access one so here are all your folder options so if you have already changed
the way a folder is laid out then you can go here and you can change it for all folders you can
change you know the way file explorer opens you can up and down arrow through these combo boxes
you can tab i'll press tab browse folders open each folder in the same window radio
button checked so these are the same choices that you've had in previous versions of the windows
you're just going to find them in the more app bar button under the options click items
as follows double dash click to open an item left forensic privacy show recently used files in quick
access checkbox checked so as you can see there we can just keep tabbing and you can make changes
and then privacy show frequently used folders in quick access checkbox checked privacy clear button
alt plug restore defaults button alt plus r and there's an option to restore defaults okay button
and there's an ok button so if you've made changes you can tab to ok and press enter i'm going to tab
cancel cancel button and i'm in a space space downloads more appbar button so that is how
you use the more app bar button here in file explorer Freedom Scientific
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