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Have you ever looked at your cat as it stared at a blank wall and thought, “What is he or she thinking?” I certainly have, and I’ve done the same thing with my SSD too—wondering if it was doing OK, if it was running too hot, if it was over-worked, and whether it was operating at peak performance. Since your SSD usually contains your operating

Memorial Day weekend is a great time to hit the links, but if you want to get some practice in ahead of time, you don’t even have to head out to the driving range. With the

Chrome’s blinding-white interface is nothing worthy of objection, but if you find it a little bland (perhaps even boring), you’ve been able to customize the look for a while now. A small button called Customize Chrome that appears at the bottom right of every new tab lets you make tweaks. And now it’s gotten even easier to spice up your bro

No, Windows 11 still isn’t able to move your taskbar around. But Microsoft is testing another feature users want: The ability to ungroup and badge your apps and windows on the taskbar.

We’d like to say that Microsoft’s Windows 11 Insider preview build 23466 for the Dev Channel includes some the nifty new

It’s finally time to upgrade to Windows 11. Or is it?

In 2021, our initial review of Windows 11 called Microsoft’s latest operating system “unnecessary.” Windows 10 was such a strong entrant within the Windows success

Nothing sets my gamer soul on fire quite like a massive sale on powerful laptops, luxurious peripherals, and so on. If you’re equally excited by those things, well, you better listen up!

Microsoft’s toolbox of utility software just added a classic: Mouse Without Borders, a terrific app that allows you to control multiple PCs using the same mouse. PowerToys also added Peek, which allows you to preview a number of different files that Windows’ own File Explorer doesn’t support.

Both utilities are packaged within PowerToys 0.

Computex is just around the corner, and when it arrives, we can expect to see scads of wonderful PC hardware. But you don’t have to wait until the start of the show next week. Zotac’s already kicking off the party with the reveal of its latest mini-PC, which is cooled by

Intel’s Arc discrete graphics cards aren’t unseating Nvidia or AMD for pure performance any time soon, but they are some of the best GPUs on the market in terms of value. In fact, the Arc A750 is our pick for the best 1080p graphics card for ray tracing. And th