I was all set to put this “Windows Explorer Explained” series to rest for a while, but then reader Martin wrote in with a question that comes up a lot: in Windows 7, how do you reveal the hidden file ...

Last week I covered some basic file management tips in “Windows Explorer Explained: Tips for Newbies“–and the article was so popular that I figured I should just keep going. So this week I’ll stick ...

Microsoft hides file extensions in Windows by default even though it's a security risk that is commonly abused by phishing emails and malware distributors to trick people into opening malicious files.

A file extensions is a suffix to the filename that's used to indicate what software or program it's associated with. If the required software to read the file is ...

A file with the "BKF" extension typically is a backup file created in Windows XP. The Windows XP backup utility adds ".bkf" to the end of files created with the native tool by default. The "SQZ" file ...