Ever been doing some work at the command line when you realized… it would be much easier if I could just use the mouse to the task? A command later, you’ll have a window open at the place where you are. This trick works well in more than one operating system, so we’ll detail how to do it in every way we know how. Open a file browser in Windows We actually covered this before [...]

Have you ever accidentally deleted a photo on your camera, computer, USB drive, or anywhere else? What you might not know is that you can usually restore those pictures—even from your camera’s memory stick. Windows tries to prevent you from making a big mistake by providing the Recycle Bin, where deleted files hang around for a while—but unfortunately it doesn’t work for external USB drives, USB flash drives, memory sticks, or mapped drives. The great [...]