In the not-too-distant future, children will look at keyboards and mice with a mixture of amusement and derision. Advances in speech-recognition and dictation technology have quietly made stunning ...

If you can do without the buttons and menus, you can type commands to manage files--and Windows itself. Covered commands include renaming, deleting, and backing up. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about ...

Navigate Windows quickly by mastering Command Prompt, the essential tool for running commands across various versions You can open Command Prompt using the search bar on the taskbar or Start menu. On ...

One of the things that has always been lacking is good all-in-one documentation on the various Windows console commands and how to use them. Yeah, we always had the "help" command in the Command ...

The Run command in Windows 11/10, let you run any Windows task or process. The Search box that appears on the Start menu of Windows provides similar functionality as the Run command. Still, for ...

Lifehacker reader Michael writes in with a nifty tip that was lurking in our comments all along, but deserves to see the bright light of posting. If you're already using the Unix-like Cygwin, it's an ...

Microsoft is bringing another Linux feature to Windows… although it’s an optional feature aimed at power users. Sudo for Windows is a command line tool that works a lot like its Linux counterpart, ...

Windows 8 has a few new features (like the charms menu, the Start screen, and gesture commands) which may seem pointless or needlessly confusing at first blush. Experienced Windows users running a non ...

Microsoft’s digital assistant, Cortana, is one of the best features of Windows 11/10. Cortana is very similar to Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri, it can perform a variety of functions like opening an ...