Here is how to show or hide the file icon overlay on thumbnails in Windows 11 or Windows 10 computers. You can enable or disable file icons on thumbnails in Windows ...

Are you wondering what those brown box icons in the bottom left corner of your files or folders are in Windows 11? If so, then this post will tell you what they are, what they indicate, and how to get ...

Reader Barry is running Windows 7 Professional. Out of the blue, his system started displaying generic icons for various files and folders. Thankfully, he was kind enough to include a screenshot, ...

Your taskbar icons are trying to tell you something. Here’s what the most common ones—and their variations—really mean.

Windows 11 still has ancient icons buried deep within They're languishing in obscure system files A Microsoft blog post highlighted a collection from the Windows 95 era in a DLL file If you thought ...

Windows Insider Program Lead Amanda Langowski, and self-professed Chief Nerd Brandon LeBlanc, detailed the changes in a Windows Insider blog post. We've already seen the Windows Security, Narrator, ...

There is no shortage of third-party file managers for Windows 11, but Files stands out among them with its native-like design, a big list of convenient features, and frequent updates. In addition to ...

In amongst the barrage of jargon and mumbo-jumbo facing newcomers to the joys of personal computing is a tricky little beggar called the 'file extension'. This is the three or four letter/number code ...