Managing Files and Folders

Windows Vista’s built-in file versioning (which I raved about not so long ago) will do the backing up in the Basic and Home Premium versions of Vista, but you can’t restore the data from backup unless you’re running Enterprise, Business or Ultimate.

At one time or another, most users have faced the daunting challenge of migrating to a new PC. What many users don’t know is that Windows XP comes with a tool designed to simplify the process: the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard (FAST for short).

n addition to Windows Vista Ultimate’s fancy-pants dual-partition security technology, BitLocker (which I didn’t have the hardware to try out, dammit), you can also encrypt individual files right inside Windows.

Tagging has taken off on the web, but what about on your hard drive? On the heels of Mac OS X’s file tagging and Smart Folders features, Windows Vista users can now tag their files and use those keywords to organize and search documents on their desktop.

How often have you opened an Open dialog and wished you could just quickly paste in the path of the file you are already looking at in Windows Explorer? Well…

If you want to speed up browsing around in explorer, you might think about disabling thumbnail previews in folders.

Windows Vista has a new feature that lets you quickly search in a folder by just starting to type, which will focus the search box....

I’ve received a number of requests for an article on how to share a folder. I know for many of you this is a very simple operation, but I finally realized there’s a reason for the confusion users are having....

If you’ve used Windows Vista for 5 minutes, you’ll have seen the Favorite Links when browsing around your filesystem. What is annoying is that by default the favorite links doesn’t include enough useful links.

Windows Vista Disk Cleanup wizard is really not all that bad, but I did find a small problem with it… It doesn’t fully empty your temp folder. It only allows you to delete temporary files that haven’t been modified in a week, as you can see in the screenshot....