Microsoft has announced that its antivirus and anti-malware software will start treating free application that try to scare you into upgrading to paid software as “unwanted software.” That means ...

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This offering might help some less experienced users, but advanced users needn’t bother. Boot-optimizer RapidStart is slick and user friendly. However, aside from presenting you with statistics about ...

Even the legitimate tools are sort stagnating because Microsoft keeps adding their ideas into Windows's scheduled tasks (for example, automatic defragmentation was not a thing until Windows 7/ A ...

The portable freeware lets multiple devices share information through a central device, typically a wireless router. In most cases, this router is connected to the Internet. In order to ensure your ...