Future updates for PowerToys, Microsoft's set of advanced utilities and extra features for Windows, will soon get settings backup and a new "toy" for editing the hosts file on Windows 10 and 11.

If you have ever used a HOSTS file on your Windows computer, you might have seen the LMHOSTS file in the same directory where the HOSTS file is located. The HOSTS file is used to map IP host names to ...

I don't know of a way to easily edit this file short of replacing it.<BR><BR>A reboot is not needed in order to have updates to the HOSTS file recognized. This file is parsed everytime a Winsock name ...

Microsoft has a new utility to the PowerToys toolset that will help Windows users find the processes using selected files and unlock them without requiring a third-party tool. PowerToys 0.64.0 also ...