If you can't open a file on your computer, don't give up right away. These tricks will give you a fighting chance of accessing or recovering its contents.

If the How do you want to open this file keeps popping up in Windows 11/10, select the default app. If this does not work, use these fixes.

If Outlook keeps asking you How do you want to open this file for JPG, PDF, PNG, etc file types, even when you have made your choice clear, then see this fix.

If you can’t seem to open File Explorer for some reason, here are the solutions that you can do to fix it. Fix #1: Reboot your PC You need to refresh your system by rebooting your computer.

To exit completely COM surrogate application, you need to do that via Task Manager. To do this: Press CRTL + Shift + ESC keys on your keyboard to open Task Manager.

Microsoft’s Inbox Repair tool can solve certain problems with your Outlook file. Find out how you can fix issues that may arise from a corrupt personal folder file.

There are ways to re-set or establish associations between file and program in Windows 10.

I open the folder, everything is sorta by name, and a second or two later (or longer), it re-sorts by date. Why? Any way to fix that? I want my folders on top and the files sorted by date, and for ...