On the Mac, you probably know all the tricks for sorting things in the Finder. You can choose icon, list and column views. And you can sort the files and folders in those windows by various dates ...

One of the biggest pains of using a PC is rooting around the file system to find very specific information. Over the years, Microsoft has made it easier to find files with enhanced search capabilities ...

There are many ways to organize files in folders within Finder, but possibly one of the handiest is to sort files by the application that will open them. AppleInsider shows how to enable this Finder ...

Like its predecessors, Lion’s Finder gives you four ways to view your files: icon view, list view, column view and Cover Flow view. But it also gives you some new ways to arrange files within those ...

A few days before writing this, my Downloads folder was a complete mess. Years and years of downloading PDFs (that I totally went back and read later), images, random music samples, and app setups had ...

The following article is excerpted from Windows Vista: The Missing Manual with permission of O’Reilly Media Inc. Until Vista came along, you could sort the files in a window into an alphabetical or ...

As a relatively recent convert to Vista, I’ve discovered one tiny but invaluable time-saver: The OS remembers different views for different folders. Suppose, for example, you configure a folder full ...

There are many benefits to maintaining an organized filing system, and in the business world this type of organizational skill can help you increase your productivity and efficiency. Since file ...