Restarting and relaunching Spotlight on the Mac have been helpful troubleshooting tricks since the debut of the search engine to the MacOS platform. Often if you restart Spotlight, rebuild the ...

Microsoft recently ruined File Explorer on Windows 11 by introducing preloading. The feature, which was meant to speed up the File Explorer, ended up slowing it down with increased RAM usage, which ...

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File Explorer has a fair share of issues and bugs that annoy people, and Microsoft is about to rub some extra salt into users' wounds by injecting more Copilot into Windows 11's stock file manager.

Microsoft is rolling out an update to Windows 11 File Explorer that reduces RAM usage during file searches. The company announced improvements in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.7523, which is ...

Facepalm: Users have long criticized Windows 11 File Explorer as inferior to its Windows 10 predecessor. The essential tool suffers from slow launches, sluggish file searches, and delayed right-click ...

Windows XXX: First introduced as "Windows Explorer" back in the Windows 95 era, File Explorer has been an integral part of the PC operating system for decades. File Explorer now serves double duty as ...

Recent Windows updates changed how File Explorer works with files downloaded from the internet. Here is what is going on. Earlier this month, Microsoft released the October 2025 security update for ...

A cybersecurity researcher has developed FileFix, a variant of the ClickFix social engineering attack that tricks users into executing malicious commands via the File Explorer address bar in Windows.

Microsoft is rolling out a new tool that lets you use AI to work with files right in File Explorer. Known as AI actions, the new feature will provide several AI-powered commands for images, PDFs, ...

You’ll be able to right-click on files to get shortcuts to AI features available in Windows 11. You’ll be able to right-click on files to get shortcuts to AI features available in Windows 11. is a ...

Microsoft keeps running into brick walls with the 2024 version of Windows 11. Each new update designed to fix the outstanding bugs ends up introducing other problems. That's apparently true with the ...