Normally we frown upon “PC cleaner” apps like CCleaner because they tend to do little more than help you find the same cleanup options already built into your computer (sometimes for a fee). However, ...

When you "zip" a file, you'll compress its data and reduce how much space it takes up on your computer or phone.

The file manager -- that ubiquitous app everyone takes for granted -- is usually the last thing on your device you ever think about, but one of the first things you use. File managers help us keep our ...

About 10 years ago, a prominent tech executive confidently informed me that computer files would become obsolete. The exec was Bret Taylor, who at the time was building a Microsoft Word alternative ...

If you have a file on your computer that may have been downloaded from the internet or copied from some other computer, then when you try to open it, you may receive a warning. Windows has blocked ...

Microsoft has begun testing promotions for some of its other products in the File Explorer app on devices running its latest Windows 11 Insider build. The new Windows 11 "feature" was discovered by a ...