We all use archive file formats like .zip, .rar in order to employ lossless data compression. In a single archive file, we can add several files and folders and considerably reduce the combined size ...

Sometimes you might receive an error while trying to change and save the contents of a Read-only text file and you never realize it until the text editor itself ...

File Explorer is one of the oldest parts of Windows, and you can tell. Microsoft has added tabs and refreshed the icons, but the core experience still needs work. For example, the layout looks rigid, ...

To add a Google Drive link to Windows' File Explorer, you'll need to install the Google Drive app. Once you install Google Drive, it'll appear in File Explorer like a separate hard drive. You can also ...

TUAW reader David wrote us to ask how he could view .erb files (Rails development) in Quick Look. The fact is, there are a lot of plain-text files with extensions that Quick Look doesn't recognize. It ...

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 ...

Adding tabs to File Explorer is one of the most-requested features for Windows 10. Despite users clamoring for it, Microsoft so far hasn’t delivered. But you don’t have to wait on Microsoft to get ...

How to add EPUB, MOBI, and PDF files to your Kindle - follow my easy step-by-step ...

I'm writing an app where I'd like to have a .ini file in the same directory as the executable for the app to use. I'm trying to figure out how to (properly) do this inside the VS.NET IDE.<BR>If I add ...