WITH SUPPORT FOR WINDOWS 7 GONE and Windows 8 bearing an ominous expiration date (albeit one that is three years from now), there’s never been a better time to make the jump to Windows 10. For our money, it’s the best operating system since the Old Faithful that was XP Professional. Actually, if you haven’t upgraded already, what’s holding you back? The 10th iteration of Microsoft’s flagship OS has been around for almost five years now.
If you’re already a card-carrying member of the Windows 10 club, though, you probably want to squeeze the absolute best out of your OS, whether you’re using your computer for gaming, work, or just a spot of Netflix and chill. There’s plenty of ways to do this, mostly using tools that are built into Windows 10; a huge selection of nifty functions, apps, and settings to be tweaked to make for the ultimate experience. It’s not just ease-of-use stuff, either; if you’re a hardware head, Win 10 is a powerful tool for system optimization and monitoring. Lots of things that might demand third-party software elsewhere can be done directly in the OS, be that disk defragmenting, malware eradication, or something else entirely.
Yes, it lacks the raw flexibility of Ubuntu or the super-sleek interfaces of macOS Catalina, but the fact remains that Windows 10 is the most popular OS for home computers right now. We don’t think it’s a stretch to claim that everyone reading this has used Windows at some point. If you haven’t, write to us with your life experiences, because they sound interesting. Windows has permeated almost every aspect of computing over the years, and in 2020, it’s no different.
This story is from the April 2020 edition of Maximum PC.
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