Microsoft is finishing 2025 by issuing only 57 patches for Windows and other products for December Patch Tuesday, but one vulnerability is already being exploited as a zero day and needs to be ...

Facepalm: Users have long criticized Windows 11 File Explorer as inferior to its Windows 10 predecessor. The essential tool suffers from slow launches, sluggish file searches, and delayed right-click ...

ThioJoe explores super-hidden Windows files that most users never encounter. Donald Trump's approval rating sees major shifts Teens arrested in viral 'door kick challenge' 4.3 million have installed ...

TL;DR: Windows 11's File Explorer remains slower than Windows 10 despite a fix that preloads the app at startup, doubling its RAM usage without significantly improving speed. The slower performance ...

In the latest Windows Insider beta update released November 21, Microsoft announced the arrival of its full-screen Xbox experience for laptops and desktops alongside a number of other new features and ...

Microsoft has begun rolling out Notepad updates to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels. The new version, 11.2510.6.0, introduces two new features. The first adds table support to Notepad, ...

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Word will save new documents to the cloud by default. AutoSave will also be enabled by default. You can turn off these options if you prefer to save your files locally. Microsoft has long been pushing ...

Microsoft is automatically turning on OneDrive Backup in new Windows 11 installations. Your files aren't stolen -- they've just been moved to a new folder and synced to the cloud. This article ...

In this post, we will show you how to format USB to FAT32 on a Windows 11/10 PC. FAT32 (File Allocation Table 32) is a file system format for storage devices such as USB flash drives, memory cards, ...

This project is a custom implementation of the FAT (File Allocation Table) file system written in C. It simulates a virtual disk environment. The system manages file metadata, handles cluster ...

A cybersecurity researcher has developed FileFix, a variant of the ClickFix social engineering attack that tricks users into executing malicious commands via the File Explorer address bar in Windows.