Every day, we come across different types of file extensions while working on a computer. The file extensions tell an operating system about the type of file so that the OS could select the right app ...

You can pin applications and files to your Windows taskbar to allow you to access them quickly and easily.

If you have a folder containing countless files of different formats, you can follow this guide to sort Files by Extensions into a separate Folder in Windows 11/10. No third-party app is needed since ...

On computers and mobile devices, file extensions are the suffixes that apps append to filenames. When you see an item like "document.docx" for example, the .docx extension tells the computer and the ...

BearPup sometimes wants to open a file in one program, and other times open it in another. He asked the Answer Line forum for an easy way to do this. Windows uses a file’s extension–the part of the ...

If you're looking to improve your experience with Windows 11, enabling these five features will help. Enabling End Task allows you to close frozen programs right from your Taskbar. Configuring System ...

Last week I covered some basic file management tips in “Windows Explorer Explained: Tips for Newbies“–and the article was so popular that I figured I should just keep going. So this week I’ll stick ...

Back in the pre-Mac OS X and macOS days, Apple’s System 9 and earlier relied on hidden metadata to associate files with apps. File extensions, those bits of text that follow a period at the end of a ...