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File Explorer keyboard shortcuts

Folders, tabs, panes, renaming, and navigation in the Windows file manager.

30 shortcuts Windows checked September 14, 2026

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Everything Code editing Comments and review Files and printing Navigation Search Selection Tabs and windows View and zoom

2 actions and 2 key variants match.

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Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
Show or hide the details pane File Explorer Windows AltShiftP Source
Resize every column to fit its text Details view Windows Ctrl Source

About File Explorer and its shortcuts

File Explorer is where Windows users spend more time than they think, and its keyboard covers navigation between folders and panes, selecting, renaming, creating, and switching the view. The commands that move focus between the address bar, the tree and the file list are what make it usable without a mouse.

Windows 11 rebuilt Explorer, adding tabs and moving parts of the interface, so older guidance can disagree. Some commands are handled by Windows itself rather than Explorer, which is why they also work elsewhere.

Where the File Explorer keys came from

Read from 1 documentation page published by the makers of File Explorer. Report a key that is wrong

To see how one action is done in other apps as well as File Explorer, browse the shortcuts by task. Shortcuts by task