You can find a better tool for just about any system task without paying a cent. Start with the firewall, which most people would consider an indispensable piece of software. Dennis O'Reilly began ...

Microsoft's PowerToys suite for Windows 11 is highly capable, but these third-party apps offer the additional PC flexibility ...

These five tools will help you get more out of your new OS (and also bring back some of those much loved Windows 10 features). Reading time 4 minutes Windows 11 is here, which means that third-party ...

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Even if you use Windows on a daily basis, some underrated yet useful apps might have slipped under your radar. Here are some ...

If you haven’t looked at the Windows utilities landscape lately, you’re in for a big surprise. Many of the old favorites have changed, bringing new features to Windows 7, as well as XP. Others have ...

PC World magazine’s big feature series on free PC software included this listing of free Windows utilities that includes everything from desktop organizers to apps for cleanly removing unwanted ...

Infoworld’s J. Peter Bruzzese spotlights eight utilities that can help make Windows 7 a better computing environment. Some, such as the Evernote note keeping app, are familiar enough. Many others are ...

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Microsoft’s powerhouse collection of useful Windows utilities, PowerToys, is adding the ability to strip out an audio track from a video file, plus the more general ability to transcode video files as ...