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

LibreOffice is free to download and install for Windows.
MUO on MSN

I switched to a lightweight Windows mod, and it's faster than many Linux distros I've tried

After years of trying lightweight Linux distros, a modified Windows setup finally made my old laptop enjoyable again.

Microsoft rolls out hardware-accelerated BitLocker in Windows 11

Microsoft is rolling out hardware-accelerated BitLocker in Windows 11 to address growing performance and security concerns by ...

This neat Windows registry trick boosts NVMe SSD performance up to 80% but it's only officially available for enterprise users

Native NVMe support is an opt-in model, so enterprise users need to enable it via the registry. What some users have found ...
MUO on MSN

I replaced the Windows volume mixer with this app and it's so much better

In Windows, audio routing feels like an afterthought. To change your audio output, you must click the tiny sound output icon ...
IEEE

Toward Autonomous Distributed Clustering

Abstract: Compared to traditional centralized clustering, distributed clustering offers the advantage of parallel processing of data from different sites, enhancing the efficiency of clustering while ...