The tree command is perfect for viewing your entire directory structure at a glance. It shows folders and files in a clear, tree-like layout right in the terminal. You can control how deep it goes, ...

Every so often, I’ll run across something I find useful, and yet I have only the vaguest sense of exactly how it works. Today’s Geeky Friday tip falls into that category—it’s a one-line Terminal ...

If you usually have more than two or three file explorer windows open at once, it’s well worth checking this out. Every user has a handful of “must have” programs for their system, the first things ...

The File Explorer program, formerly known as Windows Explorer, has been a core element of the operating system for decades. Like most of the various portions of the OS, they have given it a noticeable ...

I encountered a quirky problem the other day when I was trying to clean up one of my hard drives before copying its contents to another drive: I couldn’t delete a folder. Technically, I was trying to ...

Windows 8's built-in search function is pretty good at finding individual files and all the other files that share the same name. However, it does not do a good job of clearly flagging identical files ...

I keep running into this obnoxious problem in Windows 10 where explorer treats .html files as special such that they have a folder grouped with them. So for example, if I try to duplicate an HTML file ...

DOS introduced certain reserved device names, such as COM1, LPT2, and PRN, which identify the system’s first COM port and printer port, respectively. You can use these and other reserved names in ...

If you are bored with the same old yellow folders in Explorer, then try colorizing them. The makeover may make it faster to find the folders you seek, too. Microsoft Windows has been around since 1985 ...