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New in the May 2019 Update, this menu also includes “Use friendly

dates,” meaning you’ll see words like “Today” and “Yesterday” when
appropriate in the Date column.

But don’t think you’re stuck with that handful of common columns. If
you click “More” in the shortcut menu, you open the Choose Details

dialog box, which lists 300 more column types, most of which are
useful only in certain circumstances: Album artist (for music files);
Copyright, Date taken, Exposure time (for photos); Nickname (for

people); Video compression (for movies); and on and on. To make one
of these columns appear, turn on its checkbox and then click OK; by the

time you’re done, your File Explorer window can look like a veritable
spreadsheet of information.

Rearrange the columns. You can rearrange your Details columns by

dragging their gray column headers horizontally. (You can even drag
the Name column out of first position.)

Change the column widths. If some text in a column is too long to fit,
Windows displays an ellipsis (…) after the first few letters of each

word. In that case, here’s a trick: Carefully position your cursor at the
right edge of the column’s header (Name, Size, or whatever—even to
the right of the button). When the cursor sprouts horizontal arrows,

double-click the divider line to make the column adjust itself, fitting
automatically to accommodate the longest item in the column.

If you’d rather adjust the column width manually, then just drag the

divider line horizontally. Doing so makes the column to the left of your
cursor wider or narrower. Or use the “Size all columns to fit” command.

It’s on the Ribbon’s View tab, too, and it makes all columns exactly as
wide as necessary.

On the Ribbon’s View tab, click Options. Click the View tab. Click Apply
to Folders, and confirm your decision by clicking Yes.

At this point, all your disk and folder windows open up with the same view,
sorting method, and so on. You’re still free to override those standard