To enable compact overlay in the Files app, click the tab actions menu icon and choose "Enter Compact Overlay." The Files app ...

Junk files are files that remain on your computer after a task has been performed. Sometimes, Windows or some program needs to create temporary files while doing some task and then forgets to ...

Windows won't let you delete, move, or rename a file if a program is using it. Frustratingly, it also won't tell you which program is using the file so that you can solve the problem.

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This guide will show you how to check if a program exe file is malicious or not before installation. Using a scanner with multiple antivirus engines is the best way!

There are several options for file managers that you can use on Windows computers instead of File Explorer. Here are the seven best file managers for Windows 10/11.

The second conspicuously large file in the system folder is called pagefile.sys. This is the swap file that Windows always uses when there is not enough memory for the loaded programs and files.

Need to use third-party programs to open files on your PC? Here's how to change file associations in Windows 10 and choose which apps open which file types.

Starting with Windows Vista, the 64-bit versions of Windows have two Program Files folders. The regular Program Files folder holds 64-bit applications, while "Program Files (x86)" is used for 32 ...

When you open files that have a particular file extension, Windows will look at its configuration to determine what the default program should be in order to work with these files. The default ...

This guide details the steps required to zip and unzip files on Windows 10 without using any third-party software.