How do you keep the files and folders you need within easy reach when using Windows 7? By default, the Recent Documents folder is gone (though you can bring it back from the Start menu Properties ...

If you use Facebook frequently, it is most likely your first stop on the Web. Microsoft's Windows 7 enables you to pin an Internet Explorer icon that points directly to Facebook to your taskbar. Once ...

August 12, 2011 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Click on the program's shortcut icon and hold down the mouse button as you drag it from the desktop or the Start ...

Windows includes many interesting tools, but if you’re like many people, more and more of your digital life is happening in your web browser and nowhere else. That being the case, you’ll want to keep ...

Windows 7's taskbar lets you pin any running program to the taskbar for easy future access, but it treats folders like second-class sub-items of the Explorer icon. Create a fake "program" to pin ...

While the cloud-based storage Google Drive isn't a physical hard drive, it works like one and helps you manage files on and off the Web. After you install the Google Drive desktop app, it adds a ...

If you try to drag and drop the user folders to the Windows taskbar, you will find that you cannot or that they may merge with the Explorer icon and not maintain their identity. If you access your ...

The new Microsoft Edge web browser is set to replace the old one, and that’s not entirely a bad thing. The old version of Edge, in some respects, works similarly to Internet Explorer, and the ...

Reader Jim wrote in with this problem: “Somehow I’ve lost the icon for Internet Explorer in my Taskbar and can’t figure out how to restore it. Might sound dumb, but I’ve spent hours with no results.” ...