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File Explorer is the built-in file management application that comes with Windows. It is one of the most essential and used tools in Windows 11/10 that enables you to open, move, copy, rename, or ...

Apple Shortcuts provide a powerful way to streamline your daily routines, offering tools to automate tasks, boost ...

Sometimes I think it was easier the old way. Today, we will add a dedicated Quick Look entry to the Files app share menu. Never again will you tap to preview a file and have it launch an app instead.

Shortcuts isn’t just about asking Siri to help out when a cop pulls you over, or shutting your home down for the night. Shortcuts can also be little utilities that you use on your files, adding ...

There's an overwhelming number of file managers on the Google Play Store, but a good chunk of those are riddled with ads, ...

I'm the sole Mac user in a Windows-based company, and all of our files are stored in a collection of Windows Server shares in a whole bunch of relatively organized directories. We frequently include ...

Would you like to have quicker access to the programs you use most often? In Windows 98 you can gather the most frequently used program files and move them to the fast part of your hard drive. To do ...

File History is a useful feature in the Windows 11/10 operating system. This feature makes automatic backup versions of important files on a computer to internal or external storage. These files can ...

My latest Shortcuts experiments began in earnest on my way back from Rome. I stopped in Ireland for a few days to deal with COVID testing and start ramping back up to my normal work routine. I wasn’t ...

Use a batch file to open the URL in IE, or if you want to get "creative", you can always create your own protocol like "iehttp:" as shown in the following. Then, edit the shortcut to use iehttp: ...