Windows 11 is finally getting customizable File Explorer context menus, but Microsoft's biggest usability problem is still ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Doretha Clemons, Ph.D., MBA, PMP, has been a ...

Microsoft has tightened access to Internet Explorer (IE) mode in its Microsoft Edge browser after discovering that hackers were exploiting a critical zero-day vulnerability to take control of users' ...

Following active attacks, Microsoft has drastically restricted Internet Explorer mode in Edge. Attackers even used zero-days for system takeovers. The Internet Explorer is not dead yet. At least not ...

Threat actors have worked around the security enhancements in Microsoft's Edge web browser, by simply using social engineering to tell users to enter the legacy Internet Explorer mode to launch ...

ActiveX is still used for rendering multimedia content. However, errors are quite common since the framework has not received any updates in recent years. If your computer is blocking ActiveX ...

Legacy Update is a third-party Windows Update client which can update old, unsupported versions of Windows, from Windows 10 and 11 all the way back to Windows 2000. And now, Legacy Update version 1.12 ...

You might get an error saying that ActiveX components are not supported if you don't have the right settings. This can be fixed by downloading a browser extension ...

Microsoft is deactivating support for ActiveX in its Microsoft 365 Office package. In April, the Windows versions of Microsoft Words, Excel, PowerPoints and Visios will no longer run ActiveX by ...