Looking for a photo? Need a quick peek at your documents? File Explorer can help you get it done—if you know these tricks.

If you have a folder or two that you frequently access, you can set up quick ways to open them in OS X. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

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Windows only: Free Windows utility Folder Guide adds user-defined folders to your right-click menu for quick, easy access to any number of favorite folders. Once you add a folder, Folder Guide makes ...

Some people just aren’t fans of File Explorer’s Favorites section (known as Quick access in Windows 10). They’re missing out. Because for anyone who regularly goes back and forth between a specific ...

Quick Access, a feature in File Explorer allows you easy access to your recent files and folders. You can manually pin or unpin frequently used folders via Quick Access. In the recent Windows 11 ...

As I mentioned in a previous tip, Windows 10 includes a group of little-known shortcuts that begin with the shell: prefix and allow you to jump directly to defined system folders. You can enter shell: ...

Quick access is the panel that opens when you click on the File Explorer icon on the Taskbar. Even if you open the File Explorer from the Taskbar search box, it opens the Quick access panel on Windows ...

Mac: When you're working on a big project and are consistently using a few specific folders, it's nice to have a quick and simple way to access them. You can toss the folder in your Finder favorites, ...

I've been a Windows 10 user since it was introduced in 2015 or so. Lately, I'm seeing an odd behavior where my Quick access files and folders list is not retained possibly either from one login to the ...