Storing files on a computer is one of the most common tasks people perform on their machines, but virtual machines can be just as useful even if they don't take up any physical space on your desk or ...

If you get a new desktop or laptop computer this season, you may find that the best way to move all your old files and settings to the new computer is less than obvious. E-mailing a digital photo or ...

Microsoft Outlook includes a set of tools that simplify the management of email attachments. You can use the tools to move your file attachments to a folder on your desktop, making it easier to find ...

This post shows how to transfer large files from a Remote Desktop to a local machine or vice versa in Windows 11/10. We discuss how to copy large files over 2 GB in a Remote Desktop Session on a ...

I had an email exchange with a reader recently about making backups of a computer’s hard drive and then restoring those backup files when moving to a new computer. The reader said he took the hard ...

A lot of us use the Windows desktop as a temporary holding zone for files we need quick access to for a short time. If you're in that camp, try this handy shortcut to quickly drag files to the desktop ...

Linux or Mac OS X only: The Command-Line Fu web site writes up a quick-and-dirty trick to move files and create a symlink in a single command—so you can move files without breaking anything. The ...

Jugalkumar Kshirsagar asked how to delete a file that Windows insists is open. For reasons that should be obvious, Windows can’t delete a file—or move one—if it’s in use by a program. The obvious ...