Your Wi-Fi router’s hidden trick: Easy file sharing between PCs
An easy way to share files between PCs in your home is to set up a share drive using your router’s USB port. You can set up a share drive with just a few easy…
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5 must-do SSD tweaks that supercharge your PC’s performance
Feature Tweaks that make a difference! Australian Editor, PCWorld Sep 29, 2025 3:30 am PDT Image: Pexels: Andrey Matveev When it comes to performance tweaks, we tend to think of slight changes we can make…
Google confirms plans to merge Android and ChromeOS, PCs and phones
Up until now, Google’s Android operating system has been limited to smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, and smartwatches/wearables (as Wear OS). There’s also Android Auto, which is used in car infotainment systems. Android hasn’t yet been…
Next-gen Snapdragon X2 Elite brings more cores and juggernaut AI to PCs
On Wednesday, Qualcomm announced three new Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme processors for PCs, pushing into what it calls ‘ultra-premium PCs’ with a 5GHz CPU and an NPU delivering an industry-leading 80 TOPS.…
What is Click To Do? Meet Microsoft’s next AI headliner for Windows PCs
Click To Do lets you feed text to AI models Click To Do uses optical character recognition (OCR) technology to scan your current screen and make text selectable. Basically, it’s taking a screenshot and letting…
Meet BleachBit, the killer free app that cleans your Windows PC’s junk
Your PC’s operating system and running applications store countless temporary files on its mass storage device. One of the best-known examples of this is web browsers. In addition to the temporary data from the cache,…
Arm’s bid for smarter, AI-powered phones and PCs begins with Lumex
With any luck, Arm’s new Lumex CPU platform may give us a hint at what to expect for upcoming Windows on Arm PCs: four tiers of CPU power, plus an improved ray-tracing engine and graphics…
Firmware is the weak link in your PC’s security. Here’s how to stay safe
Firmware is the low-level software that is deeply integrated into the hardware of your device. It sits beneath higher-level software and your PC’s hardware and acts as a kind of bridge running the critical operations of…
Watch: PCWorld goes wild building a bunch of tiny PCs
Small things are cute. That’s practically the entire business plan behind everything from Polly Pocket to Reese’s Pieces. And it holds true for desktop PCs, where small form factor builds are all the rage now.…
Firefox support for Windows 7 PCs gets extended once again
Back in February of this year, Mozilla committed to supporting Firefox on older versions of Windows for at least another six months, which meant up to August 19th, 2025. Now, the company has once again…