Everyone has to deal with File Explorer. It is, after all, the Windows feature you use to get around the file system, organize data, copy and move folders, access external drives, and more. Over the ...

Remember when the prevailing wisdom of consumer tech was 'smaller is better'? And then it turned out there was such a thing as too small, as we kept losing our toasty-but-tiny-tech? Confronted with ...

From 7-Zip to Everything, these are the (free!) apps I install first on every Windows laptop and desktop I review because ...

Once upon a time, just the idea of network-attached storage (NAS) seemed needlessly complicated to me, never mind putting it in my house. If you're unfamiliar, NAS refers to any storage drive you ...

The best VPNs for Windows PCs let you browse the web, stream videos from services like Netflix, game and download torrents in private.

Windows enthusiasts have been stripping the operating system down to its bare minimum for years. Now, a user known as "Xeno" on X has reduced one ...

Sometimes you have no other choice but to share a large document from your Mac to a PC over a network. Here's how to get file sharing working between macOS Tahoe and Windows. Apple's ecosystem is a ...

Microsoft says that the File Explorer (formerly Windows Explorer) now automatically blocks previews for files downloaded from the Internet to block credential theft attacks via malicious documents.

A bootable Windows 7 install that consumes a mere 69MB of disk space has been shared online. However, it isn't a very ...

You might want to open two files in two separate windows to compare them. Also, if you want to edit two files simultaneously, you need to open them separately. That is why you can change Notepad ...

If Windows is your OS of choice, consider these open-source apps. There are tons of open-source apps for just about any task. These are all free to install and use on Windows. I've been using ...