How to Customize Finder in Mac OS X
Finder is basically like Windows Explorer. Finder. It’s just too simple.

We can point out a few ways to make Finder suck less. Let’s get started.

To add more stuff into Finder, open a Finder window and then click on View and click on the Show Path Bar and Show Status Bar options. This will give Finder a more Windows Explorer-like look.

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While under View, click on Customize Toolbar to add a couple of useful icons to the default toolbar.

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Lastly, click on Finder, then Preferences and then click on Sidebar. Here you can add other items to the Finder sidebar like Pictures, Music, etc. This is similar to the library folders in Windows.

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On the General tab, you can also edit the New Finder window shows option and pick something other than All Files.