We’ve come to expect that searching your PC for files will be like searching the web: almost instantaneous and almost perfect. But it’s always that one file—I know I have it!—that leaves you ...

Finding files swiftly and efficiently is essential for productivity, but Windows Search doesn't always cut it. Thankfully, there’s a variety of third-party tools that outperform Windows Search in ...

I recently borrowed a Windows laptop from a friend. When I booted up the system, there was a system update. That’s fine because it’s Windows; the update took two hours and 45 minutes to complete. Once ...

The latest Windows 11 Dev channel build 22572 has arrived today and it brings with it several changes like File Explorer changes, new Sandbox icon, and more. Plus it also announces a new "Search ...

On Windows, the Start menu is how you find apps and search for files. On macOS, there's Spotlight. Spotlight debuted with OS X Tiger in 2004, and it's more or less been the same ever since — with ...

Some people just aren’t fans of File Explorer’s Favorites section (known as Quick access in Windows 10). They’re missing out. Because for anyone who regularly goes back and forth between a specific ...

When Mac users think about search in macOS, they often think about Spotlight, but there's another way. Here's how to use the Finder's built-in search instead. Spotlight is Apple's file indexing and ...

There’s a lot of power lurking under the hood of the Mac’s Spotlight search index, but that’s also the trouble. To make Spotlight accessible to more users, many of the feature’s most useful tools are ...

Apple claims that a lot of its software is magic. Quick Look really is. You can, while browsing files on your Mac, hit the spacebar to see a preview. This works for images, documents, and media files, ...