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It’s always exciting to discover a free PC program that offers advanced features you usually have to pay for. It’s also interesting to try new open-source tools from independent developers on GitHub (

NirSoft, one of our favourite independent developers, has launched two tools measuring how long it takes your computer to boot and shut down. BootPerformanceView (www.snipca. com/55145) shows the boot

I used to save everything to my Windows desktop – files, documents, software, the lot. I thought it was the only way to know where they were, but it made my desktop a complete mess. What I do now Now

Choose different star colours for important emails Over the years, I’ve got into the habit of ‘starring’ important emails in Gmail, so they stand out when I have more time to deal with them. I was fru

What you need: Screenbox Media Player Time required: An hour We’re big fans of VLC Media Player, but that’s made the wait for version 4.0 all the more frustrating. Version 3.0 arrived in 2018, and the

1 Use this button to toggle between regular thumbnails of your photos, as seen here, and square-shaped images that leave little border. 2 This slider increases and decreases the size of your preview i