Editing your PC's environment variables can save you time in Command Prompt and make your scripts more concise. It also lets you customize where Windows stores certain files. This is what you need to ...

If you need to run Windows apps on Linux, Winboat is inching ever-closer to full release and will make your life considerably easier.

This project provides the classic Windows CLI tool, which can be used to start a win32 executable (like notepad.exe), even if an app execution alias tries to redirect you to a "modern" app ...

If a Windows upgrade has ever gone sideways on you, you know how vague and unhelpful the error messages can be. Here are my go-to troubleshooting tricks when that happens.

WINWORD.EXE is the Microsoft Word process listed in the Task Manager. Other Office applications may also rely on the WINWORD.EXE process. Sometimes Windows 11/10 ...

W indows has reinvented itself multiple times, yet somehow, a handful of programs keep sneaking their way into every version.

I download the file, and I attempt opening it, nothing happens. It has the icon to indicate it would launch with admin privileges, but does not provide a UAC prompt to ask for it. If I try to manually ...

When you "zip" a file, you'll compress its data and reduce how much space it takes up on your computer or phone.

You might be wondering about .cue files and what they are. You’ve seen one on your Windows 11/10 computer, and you’re unable to open it. Well, we can say for certain that .cue files are nothing out of ...

You can use the speech-to-text feature on Windows to dictate text in any window, document, or field that you could ordinarily ...

Robinhood announced Monday it has filed an application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to launch a new publicly traded fund that will hold shares of startups. The idea behind the ...

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