One of the easiest yet least known ways to drastically improve any PC’s ability to defend itself against malware such as adware or spyware is to simply redirect malicious websites using the hosts file ...

Domain Name Servers (DNS) bind the internet together. They match machine-usable IPv4 and IPv6 addresses with human-readable domain names. It's the internet's equivalent of the phone book. But, while ...

You may have seen Modern Setup Host just chilling in and sometimes consuming your system resources in the Task Manager. With the help of Modern Setup Host, your ...

Learn about the features in Windows Script Host and its native scripting engines, VBScript and JScript, that make automating just about any Windows task a snap. Are you a big batch file advocate? If ...

I am on Windows 8 Pro and I am trying to edit my hosts file but every time I try to save the changes I made I get this error: "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another ...

Your business computer hosts critical system files that you may never see while browsing files such as spreadsheets, expense reports and others in Windows Explorer. One system file, rundll32.exe, runs ...

Windows 10 was a real overhaul of the way Microsoft handles various elements of the traditional operating system: better support for modern hardware, built on the legacy of the past, but there's still ...

Some Windows users received An error occurred while trying to copy a file message while trying to copy a file. It may happen that the space of the drive in which you ...

For the past few months, I've been working with my two longtime partners, Carl Siechert and Craig Stinson, on a new book, Windows 10 Inside Out. It's off to the printer this week and should be ...

Many people today work on mixed networks, with both Linux and Windows systems playing important roles. Sharing files between the two can be critical at times and is surprisingly easy with the right ...

You can back up and restore files with Windows’ built-in File History tool — but there are key limitations you should know. When Windows 8 made its public debut in October 2012, one of the new ...