Sometimes we get so accustomed to doing things a certain way that we don’t bother checking to see if there’s a better way. Case in point: Yesterday’s post about making Windows a single-click operating ...

All the computers running on Windows Operating System have a folder named AppData on the C drive. By default, this folder is hidden. Therefore, you cannot access it until you unhide your system’s ...

There's something inside your PC that's quietly gobbling up space. It's not evil. But just a hidden Windows folder that can ...

File Explorer is one of the most widely used tools on a Windows PC. We all use our computers excessively to download and manage files; it is File Explorer that helps with all of it. With such a case ...

As a Windows 11 user, there might be times when you want to execute a Command Prompt action directly in a specific folder, like initiating a copy process. For more advanced stuff, you might want to ...

I'm using Windows XP pro.<BR><BR>I made a couple of setting changes to the folder icons, and now for some reason, when I double-click on any folder, it opens up in a command window. When I left-click ...

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Installed a File Manager and now explorer won't reuse the same window to open a folder. It keeps opening new ones which just sucks when I want to go browse around. I have it checked off in the box ...

Rae Hodge was a senior editor at CNET. She led CNET's coverage of privacy and cybersecurity tools from July 2019 to January 2023. As a data-driven investigative journalist on the software and services ...