If you have ever used a HOSTS file on your Windows computer, you might have seen the LMHOSTS file in the same directory where the HOSTS file is located. The HOSTS file is used to map IP host names to ...

Windows OS comes with an inbuilt File Explorer which everyone uses on a daily basis. Even though there are many Explorer alternatives available, the default files explorer remains the most used mostly ...

If you typically deal with a large volume of documents as part of your company's business, it helps to have an organizational system based on date. Microsoft Windows always adds date meta data that ...

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Microsoft uses file associations to set default programs for opening different file types on all its operating systems. As a result, when you open a file, be it text, image, or document, on your ...

MLStrand56 complained to the Windows forum about Windows’ inability to save file names containing punctuation. [Email your tech questions to [email protected] or post them on the PCW Answer Line forum ...

Let’s face it: Searching your PC for files within Windows has always been mildly confusing, especially with several options for searching right within Windows 10 and 11. But if you’re convinced that a ...

Remember back in the 1990s when you could crash Windows from the web browser by invoking console (con) as a directory, e.g., file:///c:/con/con? In Windows 95 and 98 "con" was a reserved name. You ...

This free, open-source utility has been around for years, and the dated interface certainly makes it appear so. That said, I ...

File creation is perhaps one of the most trivial tasks you perform on your computer almost every day. If you’re a Windows user, you probably do it via the graphical interface. Although this approach ...