I use my Mac in a multi OS environment (i.e. with Windows) and whenever I take a screenshot (Cmd-Shift-4) intended for a PC user, I have to go to information and tell the OS not to hide the extension ...

One of the easiest ways to render your computer unusable is to mess with the operating system’s files and settings–one accidental deletion of a single file can ...

Every file that we have saved on our computers has a particular extension. The file extension is added at the end of the filename followed by a dot (.). It tells the operating systems about the ...

New installations of Windows hide all file extensions, except for Windows components, that would appear in Explorer or an application dialog box that displays file names. File extensions are ...

New installations of Windows default to hiding the file extension when file names appear in Explorer windows and Open/Save dialog boxes in applications. However, this important element of the file ...

If you want to keep certain files and folders out of people’s sight, it’s possible to hide those items on your Windows 11 PC. You have both built-in and third-party methods to do that, and I’ll show ...

Reader Greg Geitzenauer is getting the tiniest bit tired of selecting individual files in order to hide their extensions. Here’s his story: To show the file extension for a particular file’s name, one ...

Windows File Explorer provides a ton of options to change how you view your files. What you might not know is that a critical option is disabled by default, despite being vital to your system's safety ...

I was all set to put this “Windows Explorer Explained” series to rest for a while, but then reader Martin wrote in with a question that comes up a lot: in Windows 7, how do you reveal the hidden file ...