If you’ve noticed Internet Explorer running slowly lately—or just halting altogether—here’s one possible cause: dialog boxes. On Friday, the same day that Microsoft recommended users download the ...

Q: Here’s my problem. Whenever I open a Word document, I get this message: “The command cannot be performed because a dialog box is open. Click OK, then close open dialog boxes to continue.” I don’t ...

Windows: If you'd prefer the Open and Save As dialog boxes to have fewer file-type options for easier selection of the ones you actually use, Format Customizer cuts out the dead weight. Format ...

A few simple tweaks let you add the location of your choice to Open and Save dialog boxes in Vista and XP. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' ...

If you have a large monitor, and you always get irritated when you have to keep moving your mouse pointer to the center of the screen to acknowledge small dialog boxes that appear, and if you’d rather ...

Windows 11 launched way back in October 2021 and has become Microsoft’s must-have OS thanks to the impending end-of-life for Windows 10. After all that time, there are still significant portions of ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Microsoft Office has started displaying a new dialog box titled "Your data, controlled by you" when you start applications such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. These dialog boxes are new Microsoft ...

After briefly testing the feature in beta, Opera is officially rolling out the option for its Android app users to automatically block cookie dialog boxes that pop up on websites. (That type of pop-up ...