Enable Popup Descriptions in File Explorer in Windows 10

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Video: Enable Popup Descriptions in File Explorer in Windows 10

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   The first thing that we need to do is right-click the lower left-hand corner of the screen

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   Then, we click "Control Panel"

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   When "Control Panel" opens, we need to click "Appearance and Personalization"

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   Then, we click "File Explorer Options"

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   A pop-up window will appear.

   

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   We need to click the "View" tab

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   We scroll down through the "Advanced settings" section to find and check "Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items"

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   Then, we click "OK"

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   We open File Explorer

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   We move the mouse cursor over any of the items

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   A description will pop up. In this case, we can see the that the free space is 151 GB, and the total disk size is 198 GB.

   

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