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 when we told you how to open an explorer window command prompt in the current directory, but we will briefly review: Simply type the following command in your command prompt:

explorer .

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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 news is that this technique also works if you accidentally deleted the photo… from the camera itself. That’s what happened to me, and prompted writing this article.

Restore that File or Photo using Recuva

The first piece of software that you’ll want to try is called Recuva, and it’s extremely easy to use—just make sure when you are installing it, that you don’t accidentally install that stupid Yahoo! toolbar that nobody wants.

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