The two languages currently play a major role in Microsoft’s products. C is deeply embedded in the Windows kernel and many ...

C++ is one of the most popular computer programming languages in the world. Most of the apps and websites that you see are based on this programming language. To write C++ Programs, you need an IDE ...

In Windows 11/10 OS, the software is installed on your System Drive, usually C drive, in the Program Files folder. The typical path in Windows 32-bit is C:\Program Files and in Windows 64-bit is ...

Much of modern operating system functionality happens in and around the kernel. That’s a problem when you’re implementing monitoring and observability tools or adding low-level security tools because ...

How to use ncurses to manipulate your terminal screen. In my article series about programming for the text console using the ncurses library, I showed you how to draw text on the screen and use basic ...

Many programs that you install are automatically run when you start your computer and load Windows. For the majority of cases, this type of behavior is fine. Unfortunately, there are programs that are ...

What to know before you dig into the startup areas Back in the days of DOS, if a program was automatically loading when a computer started up, there were only two places that the program could have ...