How to Partition Your Hard Drive to Optimize Performance | PCWorld

How to Partition Your Hard Drive to Optimize Performance | PCWorld: We explain how to speed up your PC with an advanced technique known as "short stroking," which involves finding the optimal partition size and the fastest parts of your hard drive's platters.

Extend Your Wireless Network | PCWorld

Extend Your Wireless Network | PCWorld: Crazy4laptops needs to extend a WiFi network throughout a "rather long house." He asked the Networking forum for advice.

There are plenty of ways to extend a connection. Some are easier than others.

SSuite Portable - SSuite Office Software

SSuite Portable - SSuite Office Software: A Fully Portable Office Suite - 35.6 MB in download size

Minimum System Requirements:

Runs on all Windows systems
Screen Size: 800x600
Portable Memory Device Size: 128 MB

Description:

Runs from any portable memory device e.g. Thumb Drive, Memory Stick, Flash Drive, and even from your cellphone's microSD card! . Will run on any netbook, laptop, and desktop computer instantly. BladeRunner is based on SSuite Advanced Office for best hardware compatibility and system performance.

7 Tips to Increase Wi-Fi Performance

7 Tips to Increase Wi-Fi Performance: With a few basic changes you can get better performance. If these don't work, it might be time to upgrade to one of the newer standards.

Free Antivirus You Can Trust | PCWorld

Free Antivirus You Can Trust | PCWorld: For this roundup, we once again teamed up with AV-Test, a well-respected antivirus-software testing lab, to put nine free antivirus programs through their paces. Applying a rigorous battery of tests, AV-Test evaluated all of the packages to see how well each one can withstand both brand-new malware and older baddies, and how well each can clean up a malware mess. In addition, AV-Test performed a number of system-speed tests to determine how much each program will drag down a PC’s performance. Finally, after installing the programs, we evaluated how easy each one is to use.