Newsletter Archives

• A freeware mash-up — How is your hardware holding-up?

  Posted on March 11, 2024 at 02:42 CDT by Deanna McElveen • Comment in the Forums

  FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT

  

  By Deanna McElveen

  A good “mash-up” (mix of two songs put together) is always a fun thing to hear.

  One of my favorites is “Stayin’ Alive In The Wall” (Pink Floyd + Bee Gees mash-up by Wax Audio). But did you know that a mash-up of two freeware programs can really complement each other to get things accomplished?

  Today we are going to mash together two great pieces of free software to find out how our computer hardware is doing.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.11.0, 2024-03-11).

  Freeware Spotlight Benchmarks, Deanna's Freeware Spotlight, FurMark 2, Hardware, HWMonitor, Newsletters

• Tips for speeding up Windows PCs

  Posted on November 1, 2020 at 20:15 CST by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums
  

  TROUBLESHOOTING

  By Nathan Segal

  With each update and upgrade of our Windows machines, overall speed seems to take another hit.

  Additional memory and a solid-state drive can significantly improve the performance of some systems, but there are other factors to consider. While researching this topic, the Microsoft Doc article “Speed up your computer” popped up in my search results. It provides a helpful summary of tweaks that might put more zip back into a hard-working PC. Here’s my hands-on take on those suggestions.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.43.0 (2020-11-02).

  AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Troubleshooting AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Benchmarks, PC performance, Solid-state drives, SSDs, System cleanup

• An audio problem in Win10, a forgotten app, and a Dropbox update

  Posted on October 4, 2020 at 21:00 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  SHORTS

  By TB Capen

  Controlling audio in Windows has always been one of those things that should be really simple — but aren’t.

  Recently, I ran into another audio problem that really had me flummoxed. When I was watching a Netflix movie on my PC, inside a Firefox tab, audio came through just fine on my USB headphones. But if I unplugged them, there was no audio from the speakers attached to the machine’s audio-out port.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.39.0 (2020-10-05).

  AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Windows 10 AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Audio controls, Benchmarks, Dropbox, Password managers, Windows Experience Index