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Protect And Secure Your Windows Computer: A Practical Guide
The more we live our lives digitally, the more important it is to keep our computers and other devices safe from data loss, fraud, and spying. Although most people today use phones more than computers, it is computers that need the most attention. Bo
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RIP Microsoft WordPad, a PC mainstay since Windows 95
WordPad, a Windows rich-editing app that has been a mainstay of the platform since Windows 95, is on its way out. Microsoft has marked it for deprecation, a death knell that signals that it will be removed in a future version. BleepingComputer first
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HP CEO Says Quiet Part Out Loud: ‘Make Printing A Subscription’
Printers are one of the banes of modern computing, expensive and frustrating relics that are nonetheless occasionally necessary. Over the last few years, HP seems to be doing its best to make them even more expensive and frustrating by milking the in
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Raspberry Pi 5: A Huge Upgrade For The Tiny Single-board Computer
The Raspberry Pi dominated the maker scene for a decade. Supply chain problems then brought the high flying to an end. With the Raspberry Pi 5, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is now attempting to break free. The new Raspberry Pi 5 model is two to three
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Framework Laptop 16: The Perfect Laptop For PC Hardware Nerds
The Framework Laptop 16 is a laptop with a mission. It wants to prove that a large, powerful laptop can deliver great performance along with a repairability that puts other laptops to shame. The Laptop 16 delivers on that promise if you’re willing to
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Laptop Not Charging While Plugged In? Try These 5 Useful Tips
There’s nothing more aggravating than a laptop that refuses to hold a charge while it’s plugged in. I’ve dealt with this situation more times than I can count, especially in college when my cable management skills weren’t the best. So what do you do
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Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Might Be The New Budget GPU King
Graphics cards are too expensive. I don’t think anyone would seriously disagree with me there—to get the same level of performance relative to where the industry was ten years ago, you’re looking at $100 to $300 more for a GPU. Options are particular
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Windows 10 Nags Users With Full-screen, Multi-page Windows 11 Ads
Microsoft is once again increasing the pressure on Windows 10 users to finally upgrade to Windows 11. Windows Latest reports that Microsoft is now showing some Windows 10 users a full-screen advertisement for Windows 11. This appears to be the case w
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Make A VPN Faster: 10 Tips & Tricks
A virtual private network (VPN) is an ideal solution for protecting your privacy and hiding your location from the view of others on the web. But using a VPN can sometimes lead to reduced internet speed. In this article, we will present various metho
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ExpressVPN: One Of The Best
When you think of VPNs, ExpressVPN is likely one of the first names that pops into your head. That’s no surprise, as the company has blanketed the internet with ads, and it’s likely you’ve seen at least one somewhere out in the wild at this point. An
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4 Hot PC Trends To Watch For In 2024
Every time you think the PC industry is out of ideas, they come back with some new ones. CES 2024 offered a solid glimpse of where things are going. The AI hype train is running at full speed, of course, but we also saw some promising developments fo
PCWorld2 min readSecurity
Time To Update Your Password: 26 Billion Personal Records Leaked
An astronomical 26 billion records of leaked, breach, and sold data has been discovered on the web—and it’s likely your information is caught up in the mix. Discovered by cybersecurity researcher Bob Dyachenko of SecurityDiscovery.com and the team at
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Comcast Backs Down On Misleading ’10G’ Xfinity Speed Label
The internet service industry is no stranger to somewhat nebulous claims of speed and reliability. But even in that context, Comcast’s self-styled “Xfinity 10G network” for its home internet business raised some eyebrows. After months of arguing with
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How To Log Into Windows 11 Automatically
By default, logging into a Windows 10 or 11 computer using your Microsoft account is something you have to do every time you start using the computer. Filling in some sort of password is, of course, important for security reasons. The password makes
PCWorld2 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
AI PCs Could Make 16GB Of Memory The New Normal
We’ve been recommending that most Windows users have at least 8 gigabytes of RAM if they want their PC to operate smoothly for a while—which is a shame, because a lot of budget laptop sellers still seem to think 4GB is acceptable in 2024. But a new r
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super: The 4K Graphics Card You Want
Nvidia sure has been fixing the biggest problems in its high-end GeForce RTX 40-series graphics card lineup with the recently announced “Super” series of refreshes. First, the RTX 4070 Super added 15 to 20 percent more performance to better fight AMD
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Goodbye, Bloatware! How To Declutter Windows 11
You may have already experienced it yourself with a new desktop PC or notebook: After the final installation of the prepared Windows 11, the desktop is covered in icons—much of which is bloatware. Common culprits are test versions of security suites
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Intel Core I9-14900HX Tested: Ferocious, Familiar Laptop Power
On paper, Intel’s latest 14th-gen mobile Core HX processors don’t offer laptop buyers much in the way of an upgrade over the previous generation. In the real world, that holds true as well. And, weirdly, that’s some of the best news you’ll hear all y
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Windows 11 Tests Next-gen USB, AI-enhanced Audio, And Lots More
Microsoft said Friday that it has begun testing some extremely practical new capabilities for Windows 11, with new features that include Voice Clarity, 80Gbps USB support, and sharing and compression features that accommodate more applications. Windo
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Norton 360 Deluxe: Excellent Value And Strong Protection
Of Norton’s offerings, the Norton 360 Deluxe plan hits an ideal sweet spot of wide protection and affordable pricing. It’s an excellent all-in-one solution for those who would otherwise be more lax about security if they had to maintain each piece se
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Thunderbolt 5 Hardware Revealed At CES: When Will You Get It?
We know that Thunderbolt’s next major iteration, Thunderbolt 5, will debut sometime in 2024. Two vendors, J5create and Hyper, showed off their first hardware at CES 2024. But there are two big questions: When will you actually get it and how much wil
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Tech Spotlight
AI was a huge topic at CES 2024, and there is a crop of companies showing off desktop-based accelerator solutions that hope to make huge waves in the market - ala 3dfx video accelerators back in the day. ■
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Best Of CES 2024: The PC Hardware That Wowed Us
Of course, we knew that AI would figure prominently at this year’s CES. It’s the technology story du jour, after all. But as CES veterans, we’ve seen such sparkling promises of the next big thing eventually fizzle. 3D televisions, anyone? Thankfully
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Why Doesn’t Windows Have A Decent PDF Editor?
In recent weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of familiarizing myself with the many PDF reading and editing programs available for Windows. But it hasn’t been an enjoyable experience. Not that there aren’t any decent programs out there—there are several tha
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10 Extensions That Turbocharge Windows Explorer
The File Explorer is one of the central tools in Windows. This is because the operating system is file orientated, so the folder in which a file is stored, its name, and extension play a major role. Copying, moving, renaming, and deleting files as we
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NEXT-GEN WINDOWS LEAK: 6 AI FEATURES THAT COULD CHANGE PCs FOREVER
There’s no question about it: Artificial intelligence is the new hotness in personal computers. An intriguing new report claims Microsoft will push the pedal to the metal even harder with a revolutionary new version of Windows 11 (or 12?) in 2024, de
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How To Set Up Your New Computer The Right Way
So you’ve got a new computer. Awesome! That humble metal box is the key to a wide world of potential. It can help you with everything from juggling your finances to keeping in touch with your family to blowing off some steam on, uh, Steam. But a new
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Nvidia’s RTX 40-series Super GPUs make GeForce great again
Nvidia unveiled a trio of new RTX 40-series Super graphics cards during its CES 2024 virtual keynote. Nvidia introduced the Super branding for the RTX 20-series, and these new ones match their predecessors in more than name. Like the RTX 20-series be
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