Traditionally the "File" menu in Mac applications has provided a way to access the commands that operate on the object that you are editing/viewing e.g. a text file or a picture file. For most ...

Windows has included the New option in its right-click menu for decades. It's one of those features I never asked for, never really need or use, and even stopped noticing years ago. But I found ...

Adding a bit of Windows 10 back into the mix sounds good to me.

The first item on an application's menu bar in Windows and the third on the Mac. In Windows, the File menu always includes options to Print and Exit the program; however, Exit does not generally ...

Sometimes you might receive an error while trying to change and save the contents of a Read-only text file and you never realize it until the text editor itself ...

Almost all people place multiple folders and files in a single folder. But the problem occurs when you need to change the name of multiple folders or files indexed in a particular folder. It usually ...

Windows 11’s File Explorer finally features a file size display that’s easily readable at a glance. Additionally, two important menu items are returning to the right-click menu in File Explorer. There ...

Learn how to reduce the number of commands in the Windows 10 version of the menu with help from handy third-party utilities. Right-clicking a folder or file in Windows 10 File Explorer triggers a ...

Windows tip: An Ask MetaFilter thread has a simple-yet-excellent tip for setting up quick methods for opening files based on file type by adding custom menu items to the right-click context menu. Say, ...

A recent reader comment reminded me that just because a solution to a problem has existed for years doesn’t mean it’s well known. Randy Spydell asked, in essence, why the File menu has a Duplicate ...

You can add a new file type to the New item section of the Windows 10 Context Menu, but you will have to edit the Windows Registry. Here is how you do it. We may earn from vendors via affiliate links ...