windows 8.1
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Chrome Users On Windows 7 And 8.1 Need To Install This Browser Extension
h264ify is a Chrome extension that’s been around for a while. What it does is force YouTube to play videos using the h264 codec, rather than VP9, as the former has wider hardware acceleration support. Unfortunately, if you’re still on Windows 7 or 8.1 and use Chrome, it doesn’t matter if you bought your GPU…
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Windows 8 Is Officially (Almost) Dead
As of today, Windows 8.1 is out of offical mainstream support from Microsoft. The deadline has passed which means most of us still running the last-gen operating system won’t see updates or be able to call support.
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Driver Store Explorer: Surgically Delete Old And Unnecessary Drivers In Windows
Drive space isn’t as big a concern as it used to be, but if you’re sporting an SSD as a main drive and it’s on the smaller side, every megabyte counts. Once you’ve squared away the low-hanging fruit, you’ll always come back to Windows itself. Usually, there isn’t much you can delete from the operating…
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It’s Time To Clean Up Your Windows Context Menu
We might agonise over operating system start-up times, but it’s not the occasional restart that affects your productivity. It’s the little delays that add up over time that you should worry about. Take the humble Windows context menu. It can get filled with crud from application installs and if it’s not appearing near-instantly when you…