Deleting a file on a computer rarely means it is gone. On traditional hard drives and many solid-state drives, what ...

Google Drive generally makes it very easy to work with files offline, especially if you use the Chrome web browser. But if you don't work with Chrome (I prefer Firefox), what can you do? Fortunately, ...

Locate the file Right-click on it Under Attributes, select Hidden. The file will get hidden. To see it again, you can use this method to show Hidden files. You should know one thing. If the checkbox ...

There’s a trick to thoroughly wiping all your data before you junk your old external solid state drive—or even computer.

Stationery Pad is a handy way to nix a step in your workflow if you regularly use document templates on your Mac. The long-standing Finder feature essentially tells a file's parent application to open ...

When you double-click on a file in Windows 8, Windows will automatically open that file using a program that has been associated with that file's extension. There may come a time, though, that you ...

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 program ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Firewalls scan data sent to your computer for malware and attempt to block files or other data they deem suspicious. Like ...