You need to start using Windows' overlooked package manager.

Microsoft has finally revealed a long requested feature; a Windows package manager called Winget that allows you to easily install applications from the command line. Commonly used in Linux to install ...

Windows developers have long looked at Linux’s surfeit of package managers with envy. Having a simple command line tool like apt or rpm that would install an application and all its prerequisites ...

In the Linux world, package managers catalog and install the software available in a given Linux distribution. Until recently, Microsoft Windows software management wasn’t that centralized. There was ...

The Windows Installer cache folder is a hidden system folder located at C:\Windows\Installer. Whenever you install software using the Windows Installer, a copy of the changed system information is ...

If you’re really, really sick of the Microsoft Store, Microsoft now offers a return to the glorious days of the command line interface. Meet App Installer, Microsoft’s new package manager for Windows.

One of the many benefits touted in the long list of reasons Windows Installer is so great is that the setup (MSI) files are actually structured databases. In addition to providing a universal schema ...

In my two decades of experience using Windows computers, I've always installed software the usual way. Hop into a web browser, search for the software, download it, and then install it. It's worked ...