Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

These days, you might be used to diving into the Windows 11 Settings app or the Task Manager for things like checking on your disks and even killing unresponsive apps. But before we had fancy ...

Although Command Prompt has been around for a long time, even before Windows 11, many users still ignore it. While the operating system's modern graphical interface seamlessly handles virtually every ...

The command prompt can give you a pretty detailed and technical readout of the battery health of your laptop (or tablet). Type “powercfg /batteryreport” and hit ...

Here are the steps to download and install apps with commands on Windows 11. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On Windows 11, in ...

Microsoft has released the open-source Windows Package Manager for developers and general users to install applications on Windows 10. The Windows Package Manager service and the winget.exe ...

Diagnosing an Internet connection in Windows can be a frustrating experience. To help with this, we have outlined six Windows 10 commands that you can use to troubleshoot your Internet connection and ...

Last year Microsoft introduced a preview of Windows Package Manager, a utility that lets you install Windows applications from a command prompt. Basically it’s the Windows equivalent of the apt, yum, ...

Windows Package Manager is a utility that lets you install Windows applications from a command prompt, much the way you can with most Linux distributions. Up until recently though, you could only ...

Struggling to get an overview of all the nested folders on a drive? The command line can help. Type “tree” and hit Enter to see the current folder and its subfolders neatly laid out. Add “> ...