We all know that it can be a pain finding a specific file you want to open in a sea of other files in Windows default open file or file upload dialogs, especially if it's mixed in with several other ...

Am I missing something, but when in an application, I click Open and get the open file dialog. There is a search box. If I type something in there it doesn't seem to work when I'm opening from a ...

A few simple tweaks let you add the location of your choice to Open and Save dialog boxes in Vista and XP. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' ...

Ever since I uninstalled Windows ME (upgrade from 98, then downgraded again) The sort order in the open file dialog has changed from sorting filenames in ascending view to sorting by date in ...

Finally, go to the Settings section and select Change high DPI settings button. This will open a new dialog where you have to mark the checkbox next to the Override high DPI scaling behavior. If ...

If your Word document is corrupted, it might cause Word to freeze when saving. Use the Open and Repair command in the Open File dialog to try to fix it; alternatively, you can run Word in Safe Mode to ...

Here’s a simple trick you can use in OS X 10.5’s Open dialog box. Say you’ve decided to open a saved file in a given application. You press Command-O (or select File -> Open if you’re menu-inclined) ...