Tom Fenton moves from local AI concepts to hands-on tools for matching LLMs to hardware, running local chatbots with Ollama and benchmarking AI performance.

Learn essential Nmap commands for network scanning, port discovery, and OS detection. Complete guide with examples and a ...

Most of the Windows apps you use are in the Store or the WinGet repository. UniGetUI is a free, open-source app that's easy to use. It's also a great way to back up and transfer a collection of apps.

A practical workaround shows how PowerShell developers can keep Windows Forms GUIs responsive by moving timer-driven processing into background jobs and using a second timer to update the interface ...

PowerShell GUI timers can freeze dashboards when updates run outside the UI thread. Windows Forms timers update labels correctly but can make interfaces completely unresponsive. Responsive PowerShell ...

If you use Windows Subsystem for Linux daily, you already know how powerful it is. But let’s be honest: constantly switching back to PowerShell just to run wsl --import, wsl --unregister, or other ...

Have you ever been given an application and instructed to run it on various computers and systems, only to realize that it wasn’t built for multiple hosts? After all, some apps are designed to be ...

Windows 7 was the last version of Windows which allowed users to apply the Classic theme/visual style. With the release of Windows 8, users could no longer apply the Classic theme. This was despite it ...

Editor's take: Microsoft is doubling down on its plan to turn Windows 11 into an "agentic AI" platform, and in the process seems determined to strip away the last bits of user agency left in the OS.

When it comes to Windows, activation plays a key role in making sure your copy is genuine and works as it should. Whether you’re installing the operating system for the first time or upgrading an ...

When I first started managing Windows servers professionally, I quickly realized that clicking through the IIS Manager GUI for every configuration change was eating up hours of my day. That's when I ...

Windows Terminal is a modern host application for running command-line shells side-by-side like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and bash (via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), among others. This guide ...