Windows only: While Windows Explorer can sort files by type, by default it doesn't display or sort files by extension in a separate column—but the Extension Column add-on does just that. Install this ...

The context menu is a great time-saving feature. Most modern operating systems, such as Windows, use context menus as a way of conveniently offering various options to a user without requiring them to ...

While tabs have been a core part of web browsers for more than a decade (including Internet Explorer), Microsoft is finally in the process of introducing a tabbed interface to the Windows File ...

File Explorer is one of those tools you use every day. On the surface, it seems simple—you click, drag, and drop, and maybe tidy up your Downloads folder now and then. But there are so many useful ...

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Is it necessary? No. Are heated car seats necessary? No. But once you start using File Explorer tabs, you’ll be loath to give them up. They’re dead simple. Tabs within File Explorer are just like tabs ...

Managing files is something we do all too often on our PCs; in fact, it's one of the main points of having one in the first place. So a good file manager is an extremely important tool, and on Windows ...

Some people just aren’t fans of File Explorer’s Favorites section (known as Quick access in Windows 10). They’re missing out. Because for anyone who regularly goes back and forth between a specific ...