Buried deep within Windows’ bosom is a carbon-crusted fossil from the ancient days of computing. This aged wart on Windows’ soul harkens back to a more primitive time, when computers lacked the oomph ...

Windows 11 and Windows 10 ships with Windows PowerShell out of the box. Along with it, came the Command Prompt which was a successor to MS-DOS Command line. Often the presence of two command-line ...

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When you create, access or modify a document, Windows automatically stamps the file with the system time. Though you can obtain the date and time information through several methods, one of the ...

Before Windows 95, most PCs used to boot to DOS by default. While most of the time it led to people typing “WIN” at the C: prompt to get back… Before Windows 95, most PCs used to boot to DOS by ...

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