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Web browsers and applications

• Manage Windows 10 default file type associations with SetUserFTA

  Windows 10 default file type associations dictate which applications open for different file types. Find out how IT can manage these associations with the SetUserFTA tool. Continue Reading

• Microsoft Windows Explorer

  Microsoft Windows Explorer is a graphical file management utility included with Microsoft Windows 95 and later; finally renamed File Explorer with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. Continue Reading

• How can you improve Google Chrome management?

  IT professionals should deploy Group Policies to their browsers to improve the user experience. Check out this step-by-step guide on applying Group Policies to Google Chrome. Continue Reading

• Windows Defender Application Guard

  Windows Defender Application Guard is a security tool built into Microsoft Edge that isolates browser sessions from the desktop in a virtual machine (VM) to prevent any malicious activity from reaching the desktop. Continue Reading

• ActiveX

  ActiveX is a set of object-oriented programming technologies Microsoft developed for Internet Explorer to facilitate rich media playback. Continue Reading

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  • tabbed browsing
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  • desktop search (integrated search)

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• Internet Explorer (IE)

  Internet Explorer (IE) is a World Wide Web browser made by Microsoft for use on its Windows operating system.Continue Reading

• How do Web Notes in the Edge browser work?

  Workers can use Web Notes in Microsoft's Edge browser to mark up websites, but saving the notes is a little wonky.Continue Reading

• Hands-on look at Microsoft's Edge Web browser

  Microsoft Edge, the new browser for Windows 10, makes reading websites easier, allows users to annotate a page and integrates with Cortana.Continue Reading

• Why doesn't closing a file return me to Microsoft Windows Explorer?

  If you open a Windows document in Windows Explorer rather than in the Microsoft Word interface, closing it launches File Explorer. The file hasn't moved.Continue Reading

• Why to try LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice free office suites

  After comparing Office 2013 and Office 365, our expert examines how free productivity suites OpenOffice and LibreOffice stack up.Continue Reading

• Comparing Windows 10 features with those in earlier OSes

  IT got a glimpse of new Windows 10 features in the technical preview and updated build. See how they compare to Windows 7 and Windows 8 features.Continue Reading

• IE is everywhere, but don't dismiss alternative browsers

  Our columnist says free alternative browsers such as Google Chrome and Firefox are giving IE a run for its money because they run anywhere and don't rely on mandatory updates.Continue Reading

• tabbed browsing

  Tabbed browsing, also called a tabbed document interface (TDI), is a feature recently implemented in Web browsers to effectively contain multiple pages or documents in a single window... (Continued)Continue Reading

• ActiveX control

  An ActiveX control is a component program object that can be re-used by many application programs within a computer or among computers in a network.Continue Reading

• desktop search (integrated search)

  Desktop search (sometimes called integrated search) is the ability to simultaneously search hard drives and removable storage on the user's computer.Continue Reading