If your computer crashes or locks up while you are working on a document in OpenOffice.org, your work may not be lost permanently if you have enabled the OpenOffice AutoRecovery feature. This feature ...

It's an hour before your deadline, and you just completed the finishing touches to an Office document. You close out of your research screen only to realize you closed your document instead. The worst ...

If you're using Microsoft Word and the document fails to save, how do you recover it? It could be a system crash, the power fails, or your laptop battery suddently dies. Whatever the scenario, if ...

Sometime earlier, we learned the simple technique of changing the Save AutoRecover information time limit in Word. AutoRecover feature, as you know, comes in handy when there are any unplanned ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is releasing its own Windows File Recovery tool, designed to retrieve ...

We’ve all done it before — moved a file into the Recycle Bin, and then pressed the Empty Trash button. Later, we found out that that was an important file that you needed to keep, but now it’s gone ...

You need a document, photo or other file that you're sure was deleted. You've searched your hard drive. You've scoured the Recycle Bin. No sign of it? Don't panic. As long as you act quickly, you can ...

Microsoft has created a Windows 10 File Recovery Tool that recovers deleted files and forgot to tell anyone. Everyone has deleted a file by accident and then realized that they had no backup. If this ...

Few computer experiences are worse than having a Word document blow up on you. But before you resign yourself to losing the document contents, check out these techniques for salvaging your text. Few ...