Random Windows freezes can be frustrating and unpredictable. These fixes help you identify the cause and actually stop the problem.

Thinking a deleted file is truly gone is wishful thinking — but Windows’ sDelete tool can wipe it permanently and make it ...

Preloading will help File Explorer launch more quickly on less powerful hardware. Preloading will help File Explorer launch more quickly on less powerful hardware. is a senior editor and author of ...

Microsoft admitted that File Explorer is slow and can take longer than usual to load, and it’s going to fix it in the next Windows 11 update. But the patch does not involve rewriting specific areas of ...

When trying to extract a ZIP file, a few users noticed 0x8000FFFF Catastrophic Failure. This vague error typically occurs when the Windows built-in extraction tool ...

The “Error 0x8000FFFF: Catastrophic failure” usually appears when attempting to extract a zipped file using Windows’ built-in file extractor. This error means ...

Windows Explorer has always seemed like a part of a small car’s toolkit: perfectly usable, but limited to the basic functions. Over the years, Microsoft has repeatedly revised the software and added a ...

It appears that if a zip file's top-level content is a directory with the same name as the zip file itself without the .zip (such as zip files created by Material Files itself!), Material Files gets ...