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 ...

This post covers how to make a file or folder Private on a Windows 11/10 PC. Windows 11/10 lets you choose whom to share your files and folders with. If you do not want to share one of your folders ...

Windows Notepad continues to get new features. In fact, there is a lot more to it than you would think. There are several new features in Notepad in Windows 11, such as tabs, emojis, spell-check, dark ...

Every day, we come across different types of file extensions while working on a computer. The file extensions tell an operating system about the type of file so that the OS could select the right app ...

ANSI and UTF-8 are two types of text encoding. The former is the default encoding that is used when you save text files created in Notepad, the text editor included in the Windows operating system.

Even if your email provider allows you to send massive attachments, email recipients with slow Internet connections may prefer that you didn't. One way to make files smaller without editing them is to ...

How to correctly use File History to transfer data files to a new Windows 10 installation Your email has been sent Written by Soon after last week’s article, How to use Robocopy to quickly back up all ...

While it is technically possible to open an Excel file in Notepad, this is not a good idea. Excel files are binary files that contain complex formatting and data structures. When you open an Excel ...