1. You can mark a Transition as non-quantitative by right-clicking on it in the Targets tree and unchecking the menu item that says "Quantitative". When a Transition has been marked as non-quantitative its area will not be included in values such as "Total Area".
2. I believe that the "Sample Id" column that you can find in the Document Grid will only ever have a value if the raw file came from Thermo.
If you are able to convert your .wiff files to .mzML you can try to look at the .mzML file using a text editor and see if you can find the information you are looking for.
If you are able to find the sample information in the .mzML file, let us know, and we could make it so that Skyline reads that information from the same place.
But, I expect that you will not find any sample information in the .mzML file which means that Skyline would not be able to read it from your .wiff file either.
3. In order to be able to choose "Retention time window" for "Auto Zoom", you have to have a retention time predictor. You can do that on the "Prediction" tab at "Settings > Molecule Settings". The iRT tutorial is helpful for learning about retention time prediction:
https://skyline.ms/wiki/home/software/Skyline/page.view?name=tutorial_irt
With small molecules, people often do not want to set up a retention time predictor, but they do want to set the "Explicit Retention Time" for the molecule. The "Explicit Retention Time" is a column that you can display Document Grid and set, or you can right-click on Molecules in the Targets tree and choose "Modify" and specify an Explicit Retention Time there.
4. Skyline does not really have a feature of minimum threshold. If you want to remove all of the peaks where the area is less than a certain value then you could look at the "Molecule Transition Results" report in the Document Grid, filter down the set of rows to those matching certain criteria and use the "Actions" button at the top of the Document Grid to remove the peaks for the selected rows.
-- Nick