10 free Windows apps that improved my productivity (and I'd easily pay money for)

LibreOffice is free to download and install for Windows.
PC World

I finally started using Windows Task View, 10 years later. It’s been a revelation

It only took about ten years, but I’ve finally made Windows Task View part of my everyday workflow. Task View arrived with Windows 10 in 2015, providing an alternative to cramming all of your open ...

10 Hacks Every Windows Power User Should Know

Windows is no doubt a powerful operating system, and you can tweak system settings and add power user utilities to speed up ...

How to use Task Manager in Windows

Task Manager can help efficiently manage computer processes and increase performance. Efficiency Mode optimizes ...
How-To Geek on MSN

This open-source tool fixed Windows 11's ugly taskbar

Windhawk is a free and open-source utility that allows you to customize most aspects of the Windows user interface, including ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft: New Windows scheduled task will launch Office apps faster

In May, Microsoft plans to roll out a new Windows scheduled task that launches automatically to help Microsoft Office apps load faster. The company says the "Startup Boost" task will launch in the ...
Neowin

Explorer Patcher update adds new taskbar features, ARM64 and Windows 11 24H2 support

Explorer Patcher, a popular UI-tweaking app for Windows 11, received a new pre-release update. It delivers two important changes: a new Windows 10 taskbar implementation with new features and ARM64 ...

Copilot Vision gains ability to analyze apps in the Windows 11 taskbar

Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant can now analyze apps in the taskbar and offer assistance—only when you explicitly ask for it ...