2025 was a year of major changes, whether that was the take-off of ARM on Windows, the end of Windows 10 support, or, around Q4, the insane spike in memory prices due to rising data center demand.

For most of my life as a PC user, I've lived by one very specific belief system, as I'm sure millions of others have, too: if it ain't broke, don't touch it. Now, this sounds responsible enough, until ...

You can check your CPU usage on a PC with the Task Manager or Resource Monitor apps. On a Mac, you can check your CPU usage using the Activity Monitor app. Your CPU usage tracks how hard your computer ...

Energy-saving mode was originally intended (primarily) for laptops. With a recent Windows update, power consumption can now also be permanently reduced on desktop PCs.

If your PC restarts unprompted, freezes, or programs crash, you could have a RAM problem on your hands. To find out whether RAM really is the problem, you can use your PC’s memory diagnostics tool to ...