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Tip

In case you one day think you’ve lost a bunch of important files, look for a checkmark next to a
column heading. That’s your clue that filtering is turned on and Windows is deliberately hiding
something from you.

On the positive side, filtering means screening out stuff you don’t care
about. When you’re looking for a document you know you worked on last
week, you can tell Windows to show you only the documents edited last

week.

You turn on filtering by opening the drop-down menu next to the column
heading you want. For instance, if you want to see only your five-star

photos in the Pictures folder, then open the Rating pop-up menu.

Sometimes you’ll see a whole long list of checkboxes in one of these pop-
up menus (Figure 2-16). For example, if you want to see only the PDF and

Word documents in your Documents folder—or only songs by The Beatles
in your Music folder—turn on the corresponding checkmarks.