If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

I am meeting Mindy Kaling at the office. Only, in a mid-century building at the Los Angeles Center Studios in downtown LA, the vibe is more Sterling Cooper than Dunder Mifflin. (Mad Men actually used ...

Editing your PC's environment variables can save you time in Command Prompt and make your scripts more concise. It also lets you customize where Windows stores certain files. This is what you need to ...

PCWorld demonstrates how AI tools like ChatGPT can generate AutoHotkey v2 scripts to customize Windows 11, making automation accessible without coding knowledge. The author successfully created a ...

Many users have decried the rapid and pervasive integration of AI features in Windows 11. For many, the final straw was when Microsoft Copilot-ified the humble Notepad application. "Enough's enough," ...

There is no shortage of Windows customization tools, but this one stands out by giving you maximum control with the right methods. While Microsoft aims to "fix" Windows 11 and its annoyances in 2026, ...

Mac users searching for popular software like 7-Zip, Notepad++, LibreOffice and Final Cut Pro may unknowingly land in the middle of an active malvertising campaign powered by hijacked Google ...

Microsoft has released a security update addressing a remote code execution vulnerability in the modern Notepad app distributed via the Microsoft Store. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20841, carries a ...

If you use Notepad++, it's time to update. Hackers compromised the free text and coding editor to distribute a malicious update via the auto-update function. Notepad++ developer Don Ho detected the ...

A China-linked threat actor known as Lotus Blossom has been attributed with medium confidence to the recently discovered compromise of the infrastructure hosting Notepad++. The attack enabled the ...

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Tired of all the Microsoft AI slop? You can remove it entirely. Some people love AI. If you're not one of them (or if you have a favorite AI tool that isn't baked into it), using Windows 11 can feel ...