The File Explorer on Windows is, undoubtedly, one of the most valuable features on a PC and it gets better with every new version of the Windows OS. A drawback, however, with Windows 11, was the ...

I spent last night looking for a way to pin a specific file in Windows 7 to the taskbar, so that I could open my to do list/scribble pad with a Win+key shortcut. While I only used it to open a ...

Windows 11/10, by default, allows all the apps to pin to the Taskbar. Pinning a program to the Taskbar is easy in Windows; simply right-click on any app from the Start menu and choose Pin to Taskbar.

How do you keep the files and folders you need within easy reach when using Windows 7? By default, the Recent Documents folder is gone (though you can bring it back from the Start menu Properties ...

You can create File Explorer shortcuts in Windows 10 that will open specific folders, but there’s a better way. Recently, a reader sent me an email asking if it would be possible to update an old ...

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