The latest optional non-security preview update for Windows 11 introduced a new recommended files feature, which Microsoft ...

If you cannot preview Word or Excel files in Explorer, but you can preview other text or image files, then this post will help you fix the problem. If the Word or Excel file preview is not working in ...

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

Windows File Explorer previews can expose NTLM password hashes, putting your security at risk. Here’s what you should know to stay protected.

EML files are basically emails in file form. The easiest way to open them is using an email client like Microsoft Outlook. If you have files copied from your old computer to a new one and so no longer ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Windows 7: The preview pane in Windows Explorer for Windows 7 is much better than the version in Vista (with built-in support for more file types), and it has a handy keyboard shortcut: ALT+P. You can ...

Vista had its own version of a preview pane in Windows Explorer, which didn’t work that well and didn’t work for all that many file types, but Windows 7 gets it right. Win 7’s version activates via a ...