How to change windows explorer view by keyboard?

What about ALT + V + D for details, ALT + V + L for list, etc?


In Windows 8 (And later versions) you can use the following shortcuts for View modes:

CTRL + SHIFT + 1 Extra Large
CTRL + SHIFT + 2 Large Icons
CTRL + SHIFT + 3 Medium Icons
CTRL + SHIFT + 4 Small Icons
CTRL + SHIFT + 5 List
CTRL + SHIFT + 6 Details
CTRL + SHIFT + 7 Tiles
CTRL + SHIFT + 8 Content

In Windows 7 for English exhibition language you can use the the following:

ALT (Left) + V + X = Extra large icons
ALT (Left) + V + R = Large icons
ALT (Left) + V + M = Mediom icons
ALT (Left) + V + N = Small icons
ALT (Left) + V + I = List
ALT (Left) + V + D = Details
ALT (Left) + V + S = Tiles
ALT (Left) + V + T = Content


You can use Strg (Control on US keyboards) + Scrolling Wheel. With this combination you can switch between the views. It isn´t a keyboard shortcut, I guess, because you need to use the mouse but maybe it will do the trick.


There's a lot of confusion in the answers and comments to this question, but hopefully this will be a somewhat definitive answer for Windows 10.


Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts for folder views

The weird truth seems to be that across editions/versions/builds of Windows 10, there are two different keyboard shortcuts for folder views in active use:

CtrlShiftNUMBER

or

CtrlAltNUMBER

Most tech blogs tend to list the Shift variant, making it the de-facto "official" one, while many commenters exclaim that the Alt variant is the only one that works for them. It's hard to tell exactly what factor is responsible for the issue, since many users on the same editions and versions report needing to use different shortcuts.

Unfortunately, since Windows 10's own "full list" of keyboard shortcuts doesn't even include the folder view shortcuts, it seems that the most definitive evidence of this phenomenon is the following brief note from a TenForums guide, which lists the "official" shortcut before adding:

Some people report they must press Ctrl + Alt instead of Ctrl + Shift.

There's also this answer in a Microsoft Community question, which to date has about 40 other users in agreement:

I'm having the same problem on one of (the many) Windows 10 machines I work on. I have found that Ctrl + Alt + Numbers works like Ctrl + Shift + Numbers should but this makes things very confusing when moving between machines.

For the record I personally had to use the Alt variant, running Windows 10 Enterprise, version 20H2.


Full list of Ctrl+Alt+NUMBER shortcuts

CtrlAlt1 - Extra Large view
CtrlAlt2 - Large Icons view
CtrlAlt3 - Medium Icons view
CtrlAlt4 - Small Icons view
CtrlAlt5 - List view
CtrlAlt6 - Details view
CtrlAlt7 - Tiles view
CtrlAlt8 - Content view