If many tabs are open on your system, check through the preview of those tabs and find the ones which are dialog boxes. Close them when you come across them. In most cases, all you need to do is ...

Click the "X" button at the upper right of that dialog to close it. Try to close the Computer Management window again and repeat this step until all of the open dialog windows are closed and you ...

From the left pane, select the open registry key and then double-click on the Default string. In the dialog box, set the Value data “%1” %* and then click on the OK button to save it.

Unfortunately, you’re already in the Open dialog box and don’t want to switch into the Finder. No problem. If you can see the items you want to open, select all of them, and then press Return or click ...

I recently wrote a column on how to open a dialog box in an ASP.NET MVC application. In that column, I had the HTML for the dialog box dynamically generated at runtime from a Partial View and ...

Use OS X Finder shortcuts in Open and Save dialog boxes Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring ...

Q: Here’s my problem. Whenever I open a Word document, I get this message: “The command cannot be performed because a dialog box is open. Click OK, then close open dialog boxes to continue ...

Microsoft has added a new entry to the Windows Message Center stating that since the April KB5036979 preview update, attempting to use one of these tasks will display an "Open With" dialog box.

When you click on the Go button (or press Return), the Save dialog will navigate directly to that folder. Surprisingly, the Command-V trick doesn’t work in Open dialog boxes—but there is a ...

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 ...