These free, open-source tools will make your Windows PC more powerful and give you a serious productivity boost.

If you want to stay organized and productive on your desktop, these note-taking apps did the trick for me. Here's what I like about them.

One of the hottest apps for Windows users right now is Flyoobe, a free tool that can be used—among other things—to install Windows 11 on computers that don’t ...

The new Outlook app for Windows has been the target of all kinds of criticism over the last year, not least because it lacks many of the features that were already mainstays in the older classic ...

Microsoft says the August 2025 security updates are triggering unexpected User Account Control (UAC) prompts and app installation issues for non-admin users across all supported Windows versions. This ...

The latest available Patch Tuesday (August 2025) updates for Windows 11 and Windows 10 have made quite an impact literally. There were reports of NVMe SSDs running into potentially fatal issues, which ...

Microsoft has fixed a known issue caused by the August 2025 security updates, which triggers unexpected User Account Control (UAC) prompts and app installation problems for non-admin users on all ...

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Check that your installed programs are staying in their respective lanes. Every time you install an application on Windows, you agree to give it permission to interact with certain parts of your ...

WindowSill is a new Windows app that promises a taskbar-like command bar for power users, offering them a versatile set of ...

Google said Tuesday that it’s testing a new experimental search app for Windows that will search your PC as well as the web, applying Google Lens when needed. Google classified its new app as an ...

If you're setting up a new Windows PC, installing 20 apps that you use every day will require opening the browser and ...