{"id":1032,"date":"2014-09-08T08:26:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T12:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2014-09-09T08:06:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T12:06:59","slug":"undo_icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/08\/undo_icon\/","title":{"rendered":"Add the Undo icon back to Windows File Explorer in Windows 8.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I regularly see folks asking \u201cwhere did the Undo button go in Windows 8.1\u201d. Following is a simple usability tweak to add this functionality back.<\/p>\n<p>By default Windows File Explorer in Windows 8.1 doesn\u2019t display the Undo (or Redo, Rename, etc.) icons:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"wheres undo\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/wheresundo.png\" alt=\"wheres undo\" width=\"550\" height=\"105\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So when you move a file and then change your mind, you have to work a little harder to undo this. The icons aren\u2019t visible for Undo or Redo.<\/p>\n<p>You need to find the teeny tiny drop down arrow and one by one, add in the commands that you want displayed all the time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"add undo\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/addundo.png\" alt=\"add undo\" width=\"473\" height=\"315\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once you do this, you\u2019ll see (if you look carefully) grayed out icons:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"greyed out\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/greyedout.png\" alt=\"greyed out\" width=\"550\" height=\"103\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For better visibility, you can select the drop down again and then Show below the Ribbon:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"below ribbon\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/belowribbon.png\" alt=\"below ribbon\" width=\"550\" height=\"125\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And after you move a file, etc. you\u2019ll see the Undo icon light up:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"lit up\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/litup.png\" alt=\"lit up\" width=\"550\" height=\"121\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I regularly see folks asking \u201cwhere did the Undo button go in Windows 8.1\u201d. Following is a simple usability tweak to add this functionality back. By default Windows File Explorer in Windows 8.1 doesn\u2019t display the Undo (or Redo, Rename, etc.) icons: So when you move a file and then change your mind, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[169],"tags":[313],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":""},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>&nbsp; I regularly see folks asking \u201cwhere did the Undo button go in Windows 8.1\u201d. Following is a simple usability tweak to add this functionality back. By default Windows File Explorer in Windows 8.1 doesn\u2019t display the Undo (or Redo, Rename, etc.) icons: So when you move a file and then change your mind, you have to work a little harder to undo this. The icons aren\u2019t visible for Undo or Redo. You need to find the teeny tiny drop down arrow and one by one, add in the commands that you want displayed all the time. Once you do&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/category\/windows-8-1\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Windows 8.1<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"barbbowman","url":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/author\/barbbowman\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pvFKI-gE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}