When opening or browsing PDF files on your desktop or through File Explorer, you may suddenly notice that the icons turn into ...

There are two reasons to install the latest version of Windows 10's PowerToys. First, and most important, PowerToys will soon start self-updating. You won’t have to visit the GitHub every time a new ...

Windows File Explorer is a program that is very integral to Windows operations. Here, you see different files, folders displayed in a hierarchy. The program lets you easily copy, move, rename, and ...

Windows Explorer displayed .pdf files as preview thumbnails on Zill Niazi’s old Windows 7 laptop. But on a new laptop, also running Windows 7, it displays them only as icons. Can this be fixed? I’m ...

Sometimes you have to sift through a ton of files to find what you need, and opening each one with its intended app can waste ...

If your Windows 64-bit installation doesn’t show thumbnail images of PDFs, you can use the free 64-bit Adobe Preview Handler to make it work again. When I upgraded to Windows 8 64-bit a few months ...

Your Windows PC may be home to Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, photos, images, videos, music, audio files, and more. Wouldn't it be great if you could ...

The Windows Explorer file management application in Windows 7 includes a preview pane that you can use to view the contents image files and other files on your hard drive. By default, the preview pane ...

We're a fairly critical bunch here at XDA, and we've pointed out annoyances with Windows 11 multiple times in the past. One aspect that I've covered extensively is File Explorer, or, more specifically ...