The Windows ecosystem was among the earliest platforms to embrace touch support. With the release of the Modern interface, an increasing number of Windows devices, including Microsoft Surface devices, ...

A blog for IT professionals who work with Windows on large networks. As it happens, each and every user profile created on a particular running instance of Windows 10 has its own NTUser.dat file. This ...

If you're one of the people who own a stylus or touchscreen-capable Windows PC, then there's a high chance there's a file on your computer that has slowly collected sensitive data for the past months ...

Have you ever encountered a strange file with an NTUSER.DAT name on your Windows PC? Don't worry, it's not a virus, but quite an important file. In this article, we'll explain what it is and why you ...

Windows only: Index.dat Suite is an index file editor that allows you to selectively edit or completely erase the contents of index.dat files on your computer. Why edit the index.dat? When you browse ...

We’ve all seen mysterious .dat file attachments in our inboxes from time to time. In most cases the .dat attachment originates in Microsoft Outlook, which produces outgoing messages using a slightly ...

We keep getting e-mail attachments in winmail.dat files and can’t open them. What’s going on? Is there a utility that can extract the attachments from these? When Outlook or Outlook Express users send ...

Microsoft Office Outlook maintains everything in a data file, also called PST or OST file. It is an offline copy of mailbox data stored on a local PC. In case of issues, you must delete the data file ...

I am having a problem trying to get IIS 6.0 to serve several .exe files and a .dat file. The files are hosted in a virtual directory, with "scripts and executables" allowed, directory browsing allowed ...