You can simplify application deployment and customization greatly by keeping as many configuration settings as possible in a configuration file. Configuration files support XCOPY deployment, and you ...

Learn how to leverage configuration files to customize PowerShell scripts, including language, formatting and display settings, in this conclusion to a three-part series. In the previous article in ...

The Offline Files feature of Windows 2000 and later enables users to maintain a local copy of a shared folder so they can work with the folder and its contents when the server is unavailable. However, ...

A file that contains data about a specific user, program, computer or file. Used for myriad reasons, configuration files are generally read at startup by the operating system as well as by ...

You can use the Finder's Paste Exactly feature to make quick, restorable backups of system files you might be adjusting when troubleshooting or tweaking OS X. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 ...

Recently, I have been hard at work, creating some really complex PowerShell scripts related to a few projects that I have been working on. One of the big lessons that I have learned through all of ...