I canceled my appointment with an accountant to file my taxes using the IRS's Direct File tool. The free software helped me finish my federal taxes in less than 40 minutes. Consider me a convert. It's ...

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Looking to revive deleted files? Worry not, Microsoft has unveiled its very own Windows File Recovery tool, a feature designed to allow you to retrieve mistakenly deleted files on your devices. It ...

I recently borrowed a Windows laptop from a friend. When I booted up the system, there was a system update. That’s fine because it’s Windows; the update took two hours and 45 minutes to complete. Once ...

Stationery Pad is a handy way to nix a step in your workflow if you regularly use document templates on your Mac. The long-standing Finder feature essentially tells a file's parent application to open ...

Say goodbye to sluggish thumbnail generation with this open-source solution for Windows users.

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is releasing its own Windows File Recovery tool, designed to retrieve ...

What would be a good diff tool for matching files based on name, size, etc and some degree of heuristics for fuzzy matching? I'm restoring a backup of >10TB from Google Drive, and I want to check the ...

Microsoft has created a Windows 10 File Recovery Tool that recovers deleted files and forgot to tell anyone. Everyone has deleted a file by accident and then realized that they had no backup. If this ...

Some 30 million Americans across the country will have a new way to file their taxes next spring: Direct File, a tool developed by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that allows users to prepare their ...