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 ...

If you are like me, then you probably have lots of folders filled with media files: music, videos, pictures or movies. However, after a while, they start to pile up and when you want to search for a ...

After finishing up school, I'm transitioning away from my school-run IMAP e-mail account. During my time, I managed to save thousands of messages in dozens of subfolders in my "Inbox" hierarchy. Pine ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...