Power tools impressed me, but simplicity won long-term.

IRS Free File opened Jan. 9, allowing eligible taxpayers with lower incomes to prepare and file their federal tax returns for ...

The IRS shut down its direct filing program for 2026, but some tools remain—if you know where to look. Here’s how to navigate ...

FileWizard lets you convert documents, extract text, transcribe audio and manage files on your own computer without uploading ...

I canceled my appointment with an accountant to file my taxes using the IRS's Direct File tool. The free software helped me finish my federal taxes in less than 40 minutes. Consider me a convert. It's ...

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is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is releasing its own Windows File Recovery tool, designed to retrieve ...

Some 30 million Americans across the country will have a new way to file their taxes next spring: Direct File, a tool developed by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that allows users to prepare their ...

Microsoft has created a Windows 10 File Recovery Tool that recovers deleted files and forgot to tell anyone. Everyone has deleted a file by accident and then realized that they had no backup. If this ...

Although it isn't yet built into Windows, Microsoft has finally released its own file undelete tool—it's called Windows File Recovery, and it works with the newest builds of Windows (variously known ...

What would be a good diff tool for matching files based on name, size, etc and some degree of heuristics for fuzzy matching? I'm restoring a backup of >10TB from Google Drive, and I want to check the ...