The Command Prompt is the classic command-line interface for Windows. While it’s limited to basic commands compared to the ...

Visual Basic 6 (VB6), introduced in 1998, was a major step forward in programming, particularly for Windows applications. While it has since been succeeded by Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and ...

Learn how to use Calculator on Windows 11 for quick math, conversions, and date calculations in just a few steps.

Microsoft has started to release new Windows updates that fix Visual Basic and VBScript issues that were introduced in recent updates. These updates are first rolling out for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows ...

Microsoft announced the newest Windows 11 preview build for the Dev and Canary Channels. There are a handful of updates but nothing was as surprising as Notepad getting a character count after 40 ...

Susan Kindler, a self-described “newbie to Windows,” asked me about a good Windows 7 tutorial. There are plenty of books and DVDs available to take you step by step through Windows. I’m sure some of ...

BBC Basic did a lot of things, and often quite well. During the early 1980s, it extended the BASIC languages with easier loop structures, like IF/THEN/ELSE, and ran faster than Microsoft’s version. It ...