Windows 10: Getting rid of irritating new File Explorer feature

I have been using versions of Windows for many years. Recently Windows to appears to have introduced a new feature in File Explorer which I find quite irritating. It concerns the way the contents of folders are displayed.


When opening a folder in File Explorer there have been for years different ways of viewing the contents such as seeing icons, list, or details and to sort them by name, date, type etc. I'm very happy with those options. But a new additional way of displaying has been recently introduced which I find quite irritating. It groups the files bytoday, last day, last week, last month, etc. I find this grouping completely useless and makes finding individual files more difficult for me. Unfortunately I cannot find any way of getting rid of this irritating grouping and putting all the files back together into a single group and then displaying it as has traditionally been done. I can then display them using the the other options which have been available for many years.


Can someone please tell me how to do this so I no longer see this useless today, last day, last week, last month, etc grouping of files in my File Explorer?

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New Feature: How do I get Rid of It?

@Sheltieuk Try this. In the chat window that opens, click the cog wheel at the top of the window. Turn Compact friends list & chat view off.

 

How to get rid of ribbons in File Explorer

Windows 10, version 1607. I've done the registry mod described at Hide or Show File Explorer Ribbon in Windows 10 to get rid of File Explorer's infernal ribbons.

Specifically, in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer, I created a new DWORD key named ExplorerRibbonStartsMinimized, and set it to 1. Browsing any drive from Win10, File Explorer no longer opens up
its ribbon. Progress.

But when I click on View in the File Explorer menu, to customise display columns, back cones the infernal ribbon.

How do I get rid of this excrescence?

 

Win 10 How to get rid of Windows.old folder and content.


*Think

As always, there seems to be lots of alleged fixes out there, which may work on versions earlier than Win 10... but not with Win 10. The struggle for getting rid of this now un-needed bloat seems to be wrapped up in file permissions. But even when I try to clobber it with administrative authority, it won't budge. One fix suggests that you can use disk cleanup to get rid of it by selecting previous installation files. Heh. Yeah. Just TRY and find that option in Win 10.

Ok. Somebody hopefully has managed to resolve this inigma. Step by step, please.