Where is the My Computer
Properties
Tools tab?
The only tabs within “Properties” are the “General” tab and the “Shortcut” tab.
The Tool Tab Is Missing From My Computer Properties
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If you right-click My Computer and go to Properties, you open up the System Properties window, which includes the tabs General, Computer name, Hardware, Advanced, System restore, Automatic updates, and Remote. There is no Tools tab.
If you right-click a shortcut and go to Properties, you open up the properties window of that shortcut, which includes the tabs General, Shortcut, and perhaps Compatibility. No Tools tab there either.
You can tell the icon you clicked is a shortcut three ways: 1.) It has a Shortcut tab within the Properties window, and 2.) The icon itself has a small black arrow on a white background in the lower left corner. That is unless someone adjusted the registry and hid those shortcut arrow identifiers. 3.) Right-clicking the icon also has options for Send to, Cut, and Copy. The real one doesn’t.
If you wanted to put the real My Computer icon on your Desktop or Start menu (not a shortcut), right-click the Start menu and go to Properties > Start menu tab > Customize button > Advanced tab > scroll to the My Computer section > select the radio button “Display as a link”.
That will get it on your Start Menu. Then, right-click it and click the “Show on Desktop” option. You can now go back to the Start Menu Properties and disable it from the Start Menu if you so choose. It will remain on the Desktop.
You can access the System Properties window by typing the following in the Start > Run dialog box: sysdm.cpl
Are you trying to access the Tools window from a Windows Explorer window perhaps? Windows Explorer is the program that you use to traverse through your folders. If you open up My Computer, My Documents, or one you perhaps called “Rbul’s awesome stuff”, you’re opening up Windows Explorer.
The common item accessed from that Tools menu is the Folder Options window. You can also access that quickly by going to Start > Run and typing in control folders
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