Microsoft Windows
What is TWINUI in Windows 10?
Windows 10 users may have seen “TWINUI” when opening links and files. TWINUI is a Windows component that is often mistaken for an email client or a PDF reader.
Microsoft Windows
DNS
mDNS and DNS-SD slowly making their way into Windows 10
Microsoft is working on baking Multicast-DNS and DNS Service Discovery, two widely deployed network-discovery protocols, into Windows 10.
DNS
Avahi 0.6.32 enabling IPv6 and Windows 10 log-silencing
The popular mDNS-utility Avahi sees its first update in three years. The update addresses multiple issues with IPv6 and log-flooding from Windows 10 clients.
Microsoft Windows
User-Agent of Microsoft Edge on Xbox One with Windows 10
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; Xbox; Xbox One) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/46.0.2486.0 Safari/537.36 Edge/13.10553
Microsoft Windows
Agent Ransack and FileLocator Pro review
Review of the excellent Agent Ransack (a.k.a, FileLocator Lite) and FileLocator Pro for Windows. FileLocator is a the best-in-class desktop search app for Windows.
Microsoft Windows
Don’t hide programs inside Start menu subfolders
Windows developers should stop installing program shortcuts in Start menu subfolders. It’s so Windows 98 and reduces their app’s exposure.
Lenovo
Lenovo OneKey Optimizer review
A review of what Lenovo OneKey Optimizer is, how it works, whether it does anything useful, and should you uninstall it?
Microsoft Windows
How to open the Settings app from the Command Prompt in Windows
Learn how to open the Windows Settings app from the Run dialog, Terminal app, Command Prompt (cmd), and PowerShell. For Windows 10 and 11.
Microsoft Windows
A quick look at IMAP capabilities in Mail for Windows 10
The default Windows Mail app doesn’t support everyday IMAP features like the LIST SPECIAL-USE directive and prefers old-school TLS over the STARTTLS.
Authentication and Passwords
Wi-Fi Sense in Windows 10 to reduce users’ network security
Windows 10 introduces a new feature that freely shares all your Wi-Fi passwords with your Outlook, Skype, and Facebook contacts.
Microsoft Windows
Document format support in the new Word apps and Word 2016
Which document file formats are supported in the different version of Microsoft Word 2016? The answer varies from operating system to operating system.
Microsoft Windows
Day Against DRM: Living with digital restrictions
How Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology has negatively impacted my life.