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Microsoft quietly pulled the plug on WordPad — the lightweight rich‑text editor that's been bundled with Windows since the Windows 95 era — when Windows 11 version 24H2 rolled out, moving the app to Microsoft’s official Deprecated Features list and removing its binaries from fresh OS images...

Microsoft’s latest Canary-channel preview for Windows 11 folds a long‑requested developer convenience into the OS while quietly changing how legacy runtimes are delivered: Build 27965 adds a small, open‑source command‑line editor called Edit (invoked simply by typing edit in Terminal) and...

Microsoft’s analysis of actual Copilot usage — drawn from roughly 200,000 anonymized conversations — offers one of the clearest snapshots yet of where today’s generative AI is already reshaping work: not in factories or on construction sites, but squarely in the cognitive, language‑heavy heart...

Microsoft has quietly handed developers more control over how much assistance GitHub Copilot asserts in the editor, adding several practical toggles and workflow options in the August 2025 Visual Studio update so that suggestions appear on developers’ terms rather than at every keystroke...

When Microsoft unveiled its new “Edit” text editor at its annual Build conference, it sent an unambiguous signal that foundational tools for Windows developers are due for a thoughtful refresh. The arrival of Edit on Windows, a text editor designed specifically to integrate with the command line...

You can change color schemes at anytime in vi by typing colorscheme followed by a space and the name of the color scheme. For more color schemes, you can browse this library on the vim website. You can enable or disable colors by simply typing “syntax on” or “syntax off” in vi.

Spring is here, and with this season comes a feeling of growth and change. Especially with all that has been happening in the world, this season has me thinking about everything I am grateful for and the things that keep me grounded: connecting with loved ones near and far, making the most of...

I noticed after installing the latest Windows 10 update that the Paint app is gone. What app replaces it? I sometimes need to take, edit, and share screenshots from the PC. Please advise. Thanks! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Assume I have mounted a Windows 7 image file (ISO or Aomei Backupper or TrueImage) to drive letter T: This Windows 7 is NOT the active, currently running one but an old backup archive file. Now I want to get a certain Registry value from this image resp. old Win 7. How can I achieve this? All...

When using an old console editor, compiled with Borland C, I find that some characters do not paste from the clipboard, viz: ) * + : ; < = > ? @ ^ l (upper case L is ok!). All paste ok in other console applications, and when using the legacy console! Does anyone have an...

Do you know of a good app that i can add more subtitle language choices to video dvd without re-encoding the original dvd?

Unity is a fantastic utility for creating graphically-rich high-performance games and apps. Using the editor, you can quickly create 2D and 3D worlds, and define interactions, game logic and physics rules in easy-to-understand C# scripts. Apps created by Unity run on multiple platforms...

What is the best editor in your opinion ? :)

Using the registry editor, you can block the Windows 10 upgrade notification. read more Continue reading...

Mads Kristensen is back, today with a VS Extension that will help VS Extension builders build Extensions. That is so meta I had to highlight, even through it's currently at v0.2 (might be at 0.3, 0.4 by the time you read this... :) Speaking of Mads, are are few other recent times we've...

I've highlighted Link Removed just a few times... TouchDevelop to Arduino TouchDevelop v3 - WinPhone 8, Speech, NFC, Tiles and much more... Reach out and touch the net with TouchDevelop and MaKey MaKey Develop for Windows Phone, with Windows Phone... TouchDevelop Getting in touch with...

Hey , i have Windows 7 Ultimate and i want to set it so other admin users cant install programs. I have launched the Windows Local Policy Editor and i tried to find the line with the install field with no success. Can someone tell me what is the name of the field that consists of installing...

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I have windows home premium 64 bit and did the gpedit_msc install, copied the required folders to the system32 folder but it seems like almost all the settings in group policy don't kick in when I apply them. For instance, I enabled the "prevent access to command prompt" yet all users can still...

Hi In all editions of Windows 8, there is the local group policy editor? If so, how do I find it? Thanks Bye