A few folders on your desktop – beyond the staple Stuff folder – would be a good place to start. Perhaps one for Family, one for Work, one for Vacation Plans, and one for everything else.

Click on it and a search bar appears to tag files, or find tagged files (see image to right). to tag a file you type in the tags and then drag files to the icon. Tag2Find will also suggest other ...

If the Desktop.ini is in the user's folder, leave it alone. It's there for them, not you. If it's the root of the share where everyone's folders are stored, fill it with garbage or just have a ...

This guide really just scratches the surfaces of ways you can use apps like Belvedere and Hazel to keep your desktop and folders squeaky clean—we didn't even get into more advanced multi-part ...

To hide all the desktop icons, right-click on an empty spot on your desktop, go to View, and click Show desktop icons to uncheck it. When youre ready to see your icons again, just repeat the steps to ...

If you're like 97 percent of us, you toss files on the desktop with abandon. Need an easy way to clean it up? Automator and Chris Breen show you how.

Ynnhoj Gnir discovered that with Default Folder installed, it may take an unusually long time for the desktop icons to appear at startup. It seemed related to using Default Folder's Set function ...

Keeping your desktop, files, and folders organized can be a bit of work, so it helps to have an in-and-out system you can use to always store your work. To make that easier, I created a set of ...

Tickmark the Open desktop folders and external folder links in new tab option; Press the Apply button and OK button. Related: Restore Tabs in File Explorer after Restart in Windows PC.

Wi-Fi is just a bit slower; other than that it's fine. I set up a shared folder on a USB drive on my desktop where I store its backups, and run backups from my laptop to that share over Wi-Fi, and ...

We're suckers for any sort of desktop enhancement which puts us closer to that computer Tom Cruise used in Minority Report -- stuff like BumpTop and 360Desktop, for example, expand Windows in ...

Elden Hansen wrote, “We’ve always separated our Folder Icons to ‘His,’ ‘Hers’ and ‘Business’ on the desktop. Suddenly they all got merged onto one side.” I suggested right ...