This article is excerpted from the book “Microsoft Windows 7 Unleashed” by Paul McFedries, published by SAMS, copyright Pearson Education Inc. all rights reserved ...

File Explorer is probably one of your most frequently used tools if you are a Windows user. However, if you stick to its default settings, you are not utilizing its full potential. It comes with ...

This utility, which normally sells for $30, blows Windows Explorer away by giving you a lot more options for organizing and managing files. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of ...

Windows File Explorer does the job, but just barely. No quick previews, clunky cloud access, and tedious bulk operations mean daily file management is harder than it needs to be. These free add-ons ...

Back when Windows Vista was but a twinkle in Bill Gates’s eye, Microsoft had some extremely ambitious plans to rid computer users of an outmoded concept called “files.” But alas, WinFS (as the company ...

As the name implies, IMG files contain replicas of programs and other forms of data. The information in an IMG is compressed to allow more data to fit in a smaller package. They're especially helpful ...

Microsoft's Craig Wittenberg has released a modified version of the source code for Windows File Manager via GitHub. File Manager was introduced alongside Windows 3.0, nearly 28 years ago and brought ...

Windows 7 was a notable victim of this month's "update Tuesday" security patch releases by Microsoft, according to various accounts. Some Windows 7 environments had network sharing issues after ...

Get to know File Explorer’s Contextual tabs in Windows 10 Your email has been sent Greg Shultz explores the Contextual tabs on the Ribbon toolbar in Windows 10's File Explorer for recent Windows 7 and ...