TL;DR: CrystalMark Retro 2.0, a free benchmarking tool from Crystal Dew World, now supports Windows 95, 98, and Me, after a year of development. It allows users to compare retro and modern systems.

Windows 11 just came in last in a six‑way speed showdown against its own predecessors, a result that seems to confirm every grumble about the operating system feeling heavier and slower. The twist is ...

Microsoft’s recent introduction of a native NVMe SSD performance driver for Windows Server 2025 has drawn attention after ...

In an odd turn of events, Windows 8 has been banned from HWBot, one of the world's top benchmarking and overclocking communities. All existing benchmarks recorded by Windows 8 have been disqualified.

Windows 11 is facing a reality check in a YouTube benchmark showdown, consistently trailing behind older versions with slower ...

The simplest way is to use Windows search. Open the Start menu, type reliability, and click the View reliability history option. Windows will open the Reliability Monitor, and after a second or two, ...

In a previous article I looked at UL Solutions' newest test suite, Procyon. Procyon is the successor to its widely successful benchmarking tool, PCMark. Procyon was designed to benchmark today's ...

Personal computers used to be the domain of hobbyists, who had no problem rolling up their sleeves and diving into debuggers to figure out why something wasn't working as expected. Also: Yes, you can ...