I’ve had a lot to say about Windows 8 already this year, and I’ll doubtlessly have more as we edge closer to its official late-October release date. And, let’s face it: most of it hasn’t been good.

I’m test-driving the freeware version of AVG’s Anti-Virus 7.0, and so far my hat’s off. Not only does it seem as up-to-date as Symantec, it’s definitely got less of a dragging impact on system ...

At the time of this writing, the toolkit is in public beta. If you want to try it out, you can download version 1.0. Remember that this is beta software and shouldn’t be installed on production ...

Windows has powerful built-in command-line troubleshooting tools, but remembering all those commands is tough when you don't regularly use them. Windows Maintenance Tool simplifies everything by ...