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Pacificblue

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I dont know what happened but most of my music, video and text folders (Which are all separate folders) Have this toolbar at the top underneath ORGANIZE TAB.

That toolbar has tabs like Name, Artist, Genre, Rating, Genre. I dont know how to remove it. Both Music and Video folders are in music detail mode, same with the subfolders, inside each of them I have that I keep in view list mode. (Which I prefer)

The only folder I keep on detail mode, its my document folder. I dont know how this happened but I would like a way to remove this toolbar.

I already tried changing the folder mode to Video and Picture mode. But that toolbar stills there. I tried manually removing by unchecking most tabs in the toolbar, like artist, genre, rating etc. But I cant fully remove it because the NAME tab has a check box but I cant uncheck it. So the toolbar remains there only with name tab.
I also tried changing both folders into different type of of mode like document mode or all files mode.

Inside both MUSIC and VIDEO folder, I have subfolders which are in Music detail mode. I have tried to change their mode as well but no luck. And Its not only on these folders but on every single folder I have, I tried resetting but did not work.

Please help I really dont like that toolbar being there.
 

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Could you post a screenshot? I was just in a folder with a lot of music files and I didnt see anything like you were talking about lol.
 

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Vista Home Premium. Music files have default settings as follows - Name, Artist, Album, #, Genre, Rating
 

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Right click on music folder. Choose properties, customize.
 

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First Time using photobucket, hope it works, here are some pics of my problem.
I wanna be able to remove that toolbar.

Example2.jpg


On the one avobe I try to manually erase the tabs but only the NAME tab remained because I couldnt uncheck it.

Example.jpg


And here its a picture with almost everything on it. The problem its that this toolbar did not used to be there and it appears for almost every folder I have on my laptop.
My music and videos folders I have always put them on music detail mode, but did this toolbar did not appear before, unless I would change the view of the folder into detail mode for the files inside each folder. I do not know what I did. Its there a way to remove the toolbar?

I have tried to change views and folder modes but nothing works.
 

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I dont think there is a way to remove that. Its always been there, regardless of folder contents. You are talking about the tool bar that says burn, play, print, email, etc right?
 

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Hello Pacificblue,

Sorry, but this toolbar in Windows Explorer cannot be removed or changed without using some 3rd party program like Stardock Windows Blinds. :(
 

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Brink said:
Hello Pacificblue,

Sorry, but this toolbar in Windows Explorer cannot be removed or changed without using some 3rd party program like Stardock Windows Blinds. :(
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I didn't think it could be removed. I searched all the options I knew of and nothing seemed to have changed it lol.
 

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    10.1
    Screen Resolution
    1280 x 800
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    160GB
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    Power Adapter
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    It's special, it flips open :)
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    64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)
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    ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING
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    Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)
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    2 x Samsung Odyssey G7 27"
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    Conexant ISST Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    17.3" UHD IPS touch
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    3480 x 2160
    Hard Drives
    512 GB M.2 SSD
If you don't like it use an alternative to Explorer like FreeCommander.
 

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Brink said:
Pacificblue,

If you mean the column header names, then you can click on View and select another folder view option like Medium icons, Tiles, etc... to have one of them that do not include them.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/108665-column-customize.html
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Yes. The column header names. And yes I have tried to change the view to diferent ones and that is my problem. I cant seem to make those column header go away, no matter what I do. Changing view does not help. I reset folder and did not help, I dont know what the problem is.
 

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Pacificblue said:
Brink said:
Pacificblue,

If you mean the column header names, then you can click on View and select another folder view option like Medium icons, Tiles, etc... to have one of them that do not include them.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/108665-column-customize.html
Click to expand...

Yes. The column header names. And yes I have tried to change the view to diferent ones and that is my problem. I cant seem to make those column header go away, no matter what I do. Changing view does not help. I reset folder and did not help, I dont know what the problem is.
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Those are built in. Try FreeCommander.
 

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Pacificblue said:
Brink said:
Pacificblue,

If you mean the column header names, then you can click on View and select another folder view option like Medium icons, Tiles, etc... to have one of them that do not include them.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/108665-column-customize.html
Click to expand...

Yes. The column header names. And yes I have tried to change the view to diferent ones and that is my problem. I cant seem to make those column header go away, no matter what I do. Changing view does not help. I reset folder and did not help, I dont know what the problem is.
Click to expand...

You can use OPTION ONE in that link to uncheck the column names that you do not want to remove them. :)
 

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    ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390
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    64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)
    Graphics card(s)
    ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING
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    Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)
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    2 x Samsung Odyssey G7 27"
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    2560x1440
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    1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2, 4TB Samsung 990 PRO PRO M.2, 8TB WD MyCloudEX2Ultra NAS
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    17.3" UHD IPS touch
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    3480 x 2160
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    512 GB M.2 SSD
Brink said:
Pacificblue said:
Brink said:
Pacificblue,

If you mean the column header names, then you can click on View and select another folder view option like Medium icons, Tiles, etc... to have one of them that do not include them.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/108665-column-customize.html
Click to expand...

Yes. The column header names. And yes I have tried to change the view to diferent ones and that is my problem. I cant seem to make those column header go away, no matter what I do. Changing view does not help. I reset folder and did not help, I dont know what the problem is.
Click to expand...

You can use OPTION ONE in that link to uncheck the column names that you do not want to remove them. :)
Click to expand...

Yeah I did this too. But like I said on my previous comment. I can uncheck almost everything except the Name tab or column. The first pic shows how thats the only one that remains after I had unchecked everything else.
 

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That's about all you can do for removing columns. :(
 

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  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
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    Intel i7-8700K 5 GHz
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    ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390
    Memory
    64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)
    Graphics card(s)
    ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING
    Sound Card
    Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 x Samsung Odyssey G7 27"
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440
    Hard Drives
    1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2, 4TB Samsung 990 PRO PRO M.2, 8TB WD MyCloudEX2Ultra NAS
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    Seasonic Prime Titanium 850W
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    Thermaltake Core P3
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    Corsair Hydro H115i
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    1 Gb/s Download and 35 Mb/s Upload
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    Windows 10 Pro
    Manufacturer/Model
    HP Envy Y0F94AV
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    i7-7500U @ 2.70 GHz
    Memory
    16 GB DDR4-2133
    Sound Card
    Conexant ISST Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    17.3" UHD IPS touch
    Screen Resolution
    3480 x 2160
    Hard Drives
    512 GB M.2 SSD
Brink said:
That's about all you can do for removing columns. :(
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Thanks anyways. Im still not sure what happened, probably downloading folder on a zip files might have caused this. Not sure though, cause I always seem to do but everything went fine.
Im going to keep trying to remove them. Thanks everyone and That freecommander thing is too complicated, too many tools inside, but thanks for trying to help:)
 

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