Justin Pot is a freelance journalist who helps people get more out of technology. Installing a bunch of applications at once on Windows can be annoying. You need to ...

The Emotet malware is now distributed through malicious Windows App Installer packages that pretend to be Adobe PDF software. Emotet is a notorious malware infection that spreads through phishing ...

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

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 ...

Before starting with different troubleshooting methods, check if your PC supports the app or program you’re trying to install. Also, check if you’ve downloaded the correct version of the software ...

If you are not using a package manager on your Windows system to install applications and other software, you should. Period. End of story. Searching for, downloading, and installing applications ...

Microsoft has rolled out a release candidate (RC) build for Windows Package Manager - also known as winget. The update adds support for installation of portable apps, among many other things. Over a ...

The popular Windows package manager WingetUI was recently renamed. The dev explained why that happened. Along with the name change, the app has also undergone a redesign for the UI and package engine.

No more DLL hell. That was just one of Microsoft Corp.’s goals when it introduced the Windows Installer service along with Windows 2000 nearly four years ago. The service, which now runs on Windows XP ...

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With Microsoft's new Dev Configs, a Windows installation becomes a ready-to-use developer workstation with a single command – ...