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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

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

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

WinRAR will celebrate its 21st birthday in 2026, but perhaps it’s time this ageing file-compression tool was retired. In August, it was reported that a serious zero-day vulnerability in the software h

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

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