Software can be expensive, but free programs have been a mainstay of the desktop experience for decades, and today's offerings are more powerful than ever. To keep things free, software developers ...

AutoHotkey (AHK) is a free and simple yet powerful Windows scripting language. It doesn’t get a lot of press these days, but ...

Google Chrome can’t permanently disable history recording on its own. The best options are to use Incognito Mode, Guest Mode, or switch to Brave and enable its Clear browsing data on exit setting.

You can edit the hosts file with any text editor. There are a variety available, but both Windows 10 and 11 come with Notepad ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...