If you can't open a file on your computer, don't give up right away. These tricks will give you a fighting chance of accessing or recovering its contents.

If you want to search the entire computer, open any folder in File Explorer, go to This PC (or the name of your PC), and find the (C:) drive.

Press "Windows-R." Type "recent" into the run box and press "Enter" to open the list of recently visited files. View recently opened files from other users on the same computer by clicking inside ...

That means skipping Cortana and the Control Panel and instead doing the following: Save the file you want to open to a location on your hard drive (i.e. the Desktop), right-click over it, select ...

If you want to access the local files on your Windows 11/10 computer, you can do so easily with the help of OneDrive. There is a simple setting that can set this up for you, as it can mirror your ...

You can open RAR files on your Mac computer with free apps like The Unarchiver. RAR is a compressed file format – similar to ZIP – that can hold many files in one place, and is especially ...

When you reboot your computer, this will shut down any open programs and hopefully on reboot allow you to work with the file in question. Reboot into safe mode and try to rename or delete the folder.

Often while working on your Windows 11/10 computer, you may come across CFG extension files. One may perceive these files to be complicated in nature, and they are so. Files with a CFG or a CONFIG ...

Select "Finish" to proceed with the system restore. Wait while Windows returns your computer's system files to the previous date and time and then reboots your computer.