It’s the age-old problem with Windows and something I get more email about than anything else.  All the time people are emailing me saying that Windows has failed and they’re at risk of losing all their files and data.  It is really appalling to me that this is still happening.  After all, the focus of your PC [...]

Categories: Advice

Today I’m going to take a look at another lightweight Linux (and UNIX-like) file manager (and this time I WON’T get the name wrong) called emelFM2. This particular file manager will pull at the heart-strings of old school Linux and UNIX users because it is based on the old Norton Commander file manager (which was [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Tools, Tutorials Basic

Dir Split is a very specialized tool that can move files that reside in a directory on the local computer system into subdirectories. This can for instance be useful if a large amount of files need to be split because of their size. Dir Split is however not as sophisticated as Move Out which moves [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

There are many programs that can display the largest files of a hard drive or folder in Windows. Folder Size, Treesize or Fosix are just three of the programs that we have reviewed in the past that can display the largest files of a folder or hard drive. Drive Sort on the other hand can [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

If you read my article “Get to know Linux: File permissions” you know that it’s possible, out of the box, to control who can access a file and what they can do with it. This helps to make Linux a fairly secure system. But did you know you can take even further control of that [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Security

If you are a software collector like Roman you often have to deal with different program versions that use the same filename and extension. This can be even more problematic if you want to store all those different versions in the same folder structure. The only valid options so far were to either rename the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Everyone who uses an Internet connection is downloading files from there. It can be automatic file transfers like downloading new emails or filling the browser cache when opening new websites but also manual downloads of pictures, videos or programs. The most dangerous type of downloads are program executables as they can infect a computer system [...]

Categories: Security

A user can have several purposes to monitor folders in the Windows operating system. It can for example improve the security of the operating system by ensuring that the system administrator is informed about changes to files and folders in monitored directories. It can also be used to process files and folders automatically if changes [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Duplicate files can take up valuable storage space on computer systems. They are created accidentally most of the time. Some possible scenarios include date backups but also the download of file packages that contain hundreds or even thousands of files. Most duplicate files are media related, mainly images, videos and music. It can be quite [...]

Categories: Software, Windows