Windows Explorer does just about anything you would need it to with respect to file management, however one complaint you may see people have is that it lacks speed when doing file copies. If this is something you have noticed, a utility you should try is TeraCopy. TeraCopy is a program optimized for doing one thing- copying files fast. Personally, I do a lot of...

If you run your own web site and run Perl, PHP scripts or the like, there will be instances where you have to edit some files from time to time. The long way to do it is to download the file you need to edit, modify it, then upload it back. The short way is to edit the file "live" on the server directly. Using Notepad++ this is easy to do with...

A freeware utility called Rename Master is all you need to mass-rename any type of file you want to in Windows XP or Vista. While it’s true you can mass-rename file extensions from the command line in Windows, it’s not so easy to touch a specific part of a filename. But with Rename Master you can do this easily. See video below for...

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Sharing files and folders between computers is one of the most common applications for a network. You can share single files, folders, even whole drives (bad idea!) if you want to. Sharing a folder is convenient because you simply have to tell Windows to share the folder rather than tell it to specifically share every file in that folder. Windows will...