Picture the ultimate replacement for the Windows Store app. Let’s imagine it allows for installing nearly any Windows application; no clicking through software installation wizards; automatically ...

The WinGet command, which taps into the Windows Package Manager, makes it a breeze to keep applications up to date in Windows 10 and 11. Here’s how to use it. For more than two years, I’ve been ...

My new favorite Windows app made my PC safer and more reliable - and it's free ...

Microsoft’s Windows Package Manager is a command line tool that lets you install, update, and remove applications on PCs running Windows 10 or Windows 11. First introduced a few years ago, the ...

Have you ever wondered how easy it would be if every time you upgraded to a new operating system, changed your computer, or reinstalled the old operating system, you could type a command, and all the ...

Experiencing difficulties while installing Windows updates is nothing new but there are ways to keep it to a bare minimum and prevent it from impacting user experience. So, when you find your Windows ...

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In the Linux world, package managers catalog and install the software available in a given Linux distribution. Until recently, Microsoft Windows software management wasn’t that centralized. There was ...

Ask a longtime Windows user to share their biggest frustrations about the operating system, and you'll probably get an earful about the headaches of installing and maintaining apps. And for good ...

Microsoft now allows enterprise admins to re-enable the MSIX ms-appinstaller protocol handler disabled after Emotet abused it to deliver malicious Windows App Installer packages. App Installer (also ...