Something to look forward to: Searching local files should be one of the simplest and most basic features an operating system offers, but Windows 11 still makes the process unnecessarily awkward.

Windows Sandbox acts as a digital safety net, allowing you to test untrusted apps in isolation and keep your system protected. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Most of the Windows apps you use are in the Store or the WinGet repository. UniGetUI is a free, open-source app that's easy to use. It's also a great way to back up and transfer a collection of apps.

Big global messages can come from small towns. Consider Snow Hill, a rural hamlet nearly 100 miles east of Duke University. One of Snow Hill’s native daughters is Marlanna Evans — known as Rapsody — a ...

Debloat tools claim to make Windows 11 more efficient by removing unnecessary processes and freeing up RAM. In practice, that's not the case. I've been writing about technology for more than 15 years ...

If your Windows install is feeling creaky and you want to freshen up, or if you don't have Windows at all, the fastest way to fix things up is to simply do a clean install. Back up your important ...

On the 31st of December, just as the world’s time in 2025 was coming to an end, I jammed a USB stick into my PC to purge it of Windows. The time to move to Linux had come, and so, much like George did ...

Microsoft has seemingly disabled phone call activation for Windows 11, and perhaps older versions as well, making it impossible to activate Windows without an Internet connection. This is an unwelcome ...

How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It, My husband and I were out at a restaurant several days ago. Midway ...

Bluetooth is a technology for short-range data transmission that has become so ubiquitous in recent years that we can no longer imagine life without it. This makes it all the more annoying when ...

Windows Terminal offers a built-in option to delete any terminal profile. However, we suggest backing it up before you delete it. Here are the steps to delete it: That’s all. With that, you have ...