So you've just discovered a great new calendar, music player, or other program and you want to install it on your machine. Here's how to do it on both Windows and Mac OS X. Installing a new program on ...

Certain software programs, especially large ones, are sometimes formatted and made available as ISO files, from Windows itself to applications like Microsoft Office. An ISO file contains all the ...

Also called a "setup program" or "installer," an install program is software that prepares an application (software package) to run in the computer. Unless the app is a single utility program, it is ...

Most install programs make installation of an application easy. All you have to do is follow the prompts. If there is a "Custom" installation option, you will have to know something about the ...

As we've mentioned many times before, we install every piece of software we recommend here at Lifehacker, meaning that if we don't vigorously remove programs we're not using, Windows can start to get ...

If you are unable to install or uninstall a program, software, or app in Windows 11/10, this post offers suggestions to help. This issue can be caused by corrupt operating system files or ...

We're on the heels of 2026, and I can confidently say that you don't really need a third-party antivirus program on your PC.

Microsoft had established a role for itself as a guardian of citizen privacy -- only to turn around and fling it down the drain. The company's SmartScreen deployment in Windows 8 phones home ...