What Are Disk Speed Test Apps? Disk speed test apps help measure the overall speed and performance of a hard drive or solid-state drive (SSD) (internal or external) connected to a computer system.

Poor storage disk performance and slow disk speeds are some of the most common reasons your computer might feel sluggish. If ...

Many of us use powerful desktop PCs, and that means, one has to regularly keep up with its performance. It’s even worse when you’ve overclocked your computer because that’s when things get extremely ...

Phoronix's Michael Larabel is doing some performance testing on Walmart's $199 Motile-branded M141 laptop, which has an AMD Ryzen 3 3200U processor, Vega 3 graphics, 4GB of RAM, and a 14-inch 1080p ...

How to use the Windows 10 Assessment Tool to measure system performance Your email has been sent At one time Windows 10 users could get an assessment of their computer’s general performance from ...

If you’ve ever wanted to check a Wi-Fi network speed, Microsoft is making it easier to do it straight from the Windows 11 taskbar. Good: quick access to a speed test from the Windows 11 taskbar. Bad: ...

We benchmarked a recent Dell laptop under both versions of Windows to see the performance differences in everyday apps. I’ve been a consumer PC expert at PCMag for 10 years, and I love PC gaming. I've ...

If you need reminding, the October update released for Windows as part of Patch Tuesday a month ago. It was the final non-security patch for Windows 10 before it entered its end-o ...

Optional updates for Windows 10 and Windows 11 released in January have fixed performance problems when playing games, using the operating system, or even opening folders in File Explorer. With the ...

Windows 11 nukes gaming performance by up to 28 percent! At least, that’s one of the early takes echoing around the Internet already. It’s largely based on testing done by PC Gamer‘s Dave James, which ...

When Microsoft released Windows 11, one aspect of the OS that was highlighted was its better security. Mandatory requirements like Secure Boot and Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 (or PTT / Platform ...