Thanks to the graphical user interface of Windows 10, users can get just about anything done by simply clicking on the icon. Without the GUI, we’d have been forced to do everything from the command ...

Who needs a mouse anyway?

Looking for a photo? Need a quick peek at your documents? File Explorer can help you get it done—if you know these tricks.

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 ...

Microsoft uses file associations to set default programs for opening different file types on all its operating systems. As a result, when you open a file, be it text, image, or document, on your ...

Select multiple files, right click on one of them and select Open. Or hit enter. It just depends on the registry entries for the file type whether they can be 'opened' more than one at a time. Oh, and ...

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Before you start unzipping files, you may want to check out what’s in it. Back in the day, you would have had to download third-party software to do this. Now, Windows lets you take a peek inside by ...