Windows 11's File Explorer Is Finally Giving the Squiggly ~ Key a Job, Sending It Straight to the User Folder
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Microsoft is testing a little novelty in Windows 11 File Explorer. The character "~" will soon allow direct access to the user's personal folder, a convention familiar to the regulars of macOS and Linux.
A current preview update for Windows 11 brings with it a small but fine change for the navigation in the file explorer. A 'new' abbreviation should make it much easier to access your own user profile in the future. (Read more)
Windows 11 Finally Gives the ~ Key a Useful Job
Microsoft is giving one of the most overlooked keys on your keyboard a surprisingly useful job in Windows 11. The humble tilde (~) key can now be used in File Explorer to quickly jump to your Windows user profile folder and the folders inside it. The change is currently being tested with Windows 11 Insider […]
Windows 11's File Explorer is finally giving the squiggly ~ key a job, sending it straight to the user folder
There’s a new Windows 11 update that will soon give the squiggly ~ key a job, and that is to quickly open folders like your user profile, Documents, Downloads, and, sometimes very importantly, the AppData folder. Right now, if you use the full path to open AppData, you need to enter `C:\Users\username\AppData` in File Explorer, […]
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