Windows 11 has gotten pretty good at hiding the plumbing I’m not supposed to touch. That made it all the stranger when I ran dir /a C:\ and spotted a name I hadn’t expected to see outside an old ...

Want to change user folder name Windows 11 set up wrong? Compare the new setup field, display name edits, registry rename and ...

Windows is a bit of a hoarder.

In this post, we will see how to show Hidden Files, Folders & Drives along with Protected operating system files in Windows 11/10, via File Explorer Options in the Control Panel or by using the ...

A while ago I saw someone espousing the virtues of c:\tools. This is a folder on your computer (and in your PATH) that contains all those handy (usually self-contained) executables that you either run ...

Update 4/11: Microsoft has now confirmed that the inetpub folder is created as part of a security update. More information in this article. The Windows April 2025 updates are strangely creating an ...

Do you see a $WinREAgent folder on your C drive? And maybe wondering what it is there for. Well, such folders with the ‘Dollar’ $ sign indicate that the folder is ...

The issue is we have an IIS server with a small C drive that is filling up... Maybe this is a stupid question... but it just seems like that is a rather large folder. I assume .NET needs ALL those ...

This month's cumulative updates for Windows 11 include not only your standard fixes and patches but also unexpected new folders on the system drive. On April 8, Microsoft released the latest ...

Windows 10 and Windows 11 users who installed last week's April Patch Tuesday updates may have noticed a strange new folder appear on their system drive, or C drive. Also: 10 pesky Windows 11 24H2 ...