Before I dig into this, I thought I'd ask here if anyone has cooked up a script that will collapse a directory of files in many folders into one folder; i.e. a directory tree into just one flat folder ...

Figuring out which directories are most troublesome without reading the drive extensively can be challenging, but TreeSize Free shows you results instantly. The explorer add-on can be launched from ...

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 ...

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 ...