I replaced bloated apps with lightweight tools—and my Windows PC now feels faster, cleaner, and easier to use.

The Windows Community Toolkit advanced to version 8.1, adding new features, improving existing controls and making dependency changes. The toolkit is a community-driven project hosted by the .NET ...

Microsoft shipped Windows Community Toolkit v8.2, an incremental update to the open-source collection of helper functions and other resources designed to simplify the development of Windows ...

I’ve spent more hours than I care to admit diagnosing stubborn Windows problems: sluggish laptops, desktop crashes, weird startup behavior, you name it. Over the years, I’ve used plenty of different ...

One of the handier features on new cars is the ability to remotely unlock and start them. Microsoft is adding the opposite — the ability to remotely lock your PC — to its Windows toolkit. As the site ...

I’m test-driving the freeware version of AVG’s Anti-Virus 7.0, and so far my hat’s off. Not only does it seem as up-to-date as Symantec, it’s definitely got less of a dragging impact on system ...

VMWare announced several weeks ago that the beta release of their VI Toolkit (for Windows) 1.0 was available for download: Link With 102 cmdlets, which allow you to manage VMware ESX or VMware ...