Controlled Folder Access is a security feature included in Microsoft Defender Exploit Guard, a component of Microsoft Defender Antivirus. Its main purpose is to thwart ransomware attacks by preventing ...

ActiveXNames.txt A list of ActiveX class IDs; used to populate the ClassID pop-up menu in the ActiveX inspector. defaultStyles.xml The default styles that appear in the HTML Styles palette for a new ...

Recently, I have been hard at work, creating some really complex PowerShell scripts related to a few projects that I have been working on. One of the big lessons that I have learned through all of ...

A file that contains data about a specific user, program, computer or file. Used for myriad reasons, configuration files are generally read at startup by the operating system as well as by ...

Windows 10 May 2019 Update (version 1903) included a new feature called the Windows Sandbox that allows you to safely run applications in isolation from the rest of the operating system. When you ...

Windows 11 changes how folder customizations work, and what looks like a bug is actually a security upgrade.

Tweaking the settings in your configuration files in ASP.Net can provide a nice performance boost. These files include machine.config and web.config. The web.config file is application-specific and is ...

Many a times, developers feel the need to store properties in external text Such properties are known as Dynamic properties and are read from the configuration files at runtime by the ...

When browsing through your folder structure on your Windows system drive, you may have wondered why your System32 folder is too big on your Windows 11/10 computer. If you have this question, then this ...

In ASP.NET Core, your web.config file with its <appsettings> section is gone. The replacement is a more extensive and configurable system that you can leverage to simplify configuring your objects. In ...

Learn how to leverage configuration files to customize PowerShell scripts, including language, formatting and display settings, in this conclusion to a three-part series. In the previous article in ...