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

If you're constantly setting up new PCs with Windows 11, this tool can get you started much more quickly. But it takes some time to set up.

If you want to buy, manage, and play Microsoft Games on Windows without using Steam, then your best bet is to use the Xbox app. The app is free and has improved a lot over the years, and with the rise ...

Medicat USB is basically a giant toolbox you can boot straight from a flash drive. Like PhoenixPE, it builds on a Windows Preinstallation Environment (here, it’s called Mini Windows 10), which runs ...

Google announced Thursday that its AI chatbot Gemini will now be available to all Mac and Windows desktop users in the United ...

Users of Windows 11/10 sometimes encounter an error coded 0x800704c6 while downloading, installing, or updating apps from the Microsoft Store. Several people have ...

If you’ve ever wanted to play Android apps on your PC, you may have come across the free BlueStacks emulator. It simulates an Android phone or tablet and allows you to run apps and games that weren’t ...

Look out for more unsolicited app installations on your Windows 11 PC in the coming weeks, as Microsoft strives to enhance ...

Later this month, Microsoft will start automatically installing the Microsoft 365 companion apps on Windows 11 devices that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. In the decades that I've been using Linux, I have not needed a single Windows app because Linux has all the software I require. However, I ...