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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft recently released a new feature for the Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 (WSL2) that allows you to configure global options that will be used by all WSL2 Linux distributions installed ...