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www.snipca.com/57399 What you need: Windows 7, 8.1, 10 or 11 Winaero Tweaker was once our go-to tool for fixing Windows annoyances, but it’s been nearly 18 months since the last version. As a surprise

Ashampoo WinOptimizer 27 is a comprehensive PC cleaning, maintenance and optimisation suite. It can help you achieve peak Windows performance with a series of new automation tools that can accelerate,

www.snipca.com/55189 Wintoys was by far your most-downloaded tool of 2025, rising from 12th place in 2024. This brilliant system-optimisation app (it’s only available from the Microsoft Store) was upd

Microsoft has brought back the Image Resizer tool for Windows 10. It was removed in version 0.96, released on 19 November, but was reinstated a week later with the small update 0.96.1. It lets you rig

In your answer to Tom Rathbone’s question about ebook formats (Issue 724, page 69) you could have mentioned the app ReadEra (https://readera.org). I installed it on my iPad earlier this year and it su

There’s mounting evidence to suggest that more people than ever are switching to Linux. Take the recent announcement from the makers of Zorin OS – the most Windows-like Linux distro – that it had been