WINDOWS 11 By Martin Brinkmann Here’s a surprising speed boost for everyday, heavy-duty tasks. It works on many Windows setups and costs nothing. When Microsoft rolled out Dev Drive for Windows 11 back in 2023, it slapped a massive “For Developers Only” sign on the feature. The pitch was that enterprise programmers compiling millions of […]

FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT By Deanna McElveen Last night I needed to delete a 2TB folder from a mechanical hard drive. I even did it from the command line, in hopes it would be faster. After supper, it still wasn’t finished. Finding DelFast by the developer known as “The Yali” is a little too late for saving […]

WINDOWS 11 By Chris Hoffman Windows 11’s Task Manager is a grab bag of features, some useful and others pointless. The Task Manager isn’t just a way to end misbehaving processes. It’s a way to monitor your system’s resource usage, see hardware details, and take control over startup apps. It’s also a bit of a […]