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XL Converter arrives as a quietly powerful, free and open-source image utility that brings modern compression formats and advanced JPEG tech to Windows and Linux users—making it a smart tool for anyone who needs to shrink, transcode, or batch-process large photo libraries without sacrificing...

Robocopy is the built‑in "power tool" Windows 11 users should reach for when copying large folders, migrating drives, or building resilient backups — it resumes interrupted transfers, supports multi‑threaded copying, logs everything, and can be automated into scheduled tasks for repeatable...

The AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 "Strix Halo" represents a significant advancement in AMD's processor lineup, integrating cutting-edge AI capabilities with robust performance metrics. As users consider this processor for their computing needs, a critical question arises: which operating...

AMD’s latest announcement around its Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000X3D CPUs has stirred considerable interest across the PC hardware enthusiast community. With the launch wave for these innovative processors expanding, including new technical details for the 12-core Ryzen 9 9900X3D and performance...

This is a repost, now that ChatGPT is working again... Hi. I need some clarification and/or help with a multi-threaded application being debugged with Visual Studio. I notice that when I hit a breakpoint in a thread, it stops, and I can examine the status and values, but when I step to the...

Hi. I need some clarification and/or help with a multi-threaded application being debugged with Visual Studio. I notice that when I hit a breakpoint in a thread, it stops, and I can examine the status and values, but when I step to the next instruction, the debugger goes back to the original...

I have solved the problem! See the original post, "A strange problem with modeless dialog boxes", for details. This is a repost, incorporating the latest simplifications of the problem statement, and a minimal reproducible example of the code... I'm having a problem with modeless dialog boxes...

Hi, I was using ffmpeg to strip the audio from a video file and it took like 20 minutes and I was not remotely impressed, the audiophile was like 6 hours, I would have thought taking the mp3 from a webm file would be pretty fast, however upon examination of the resources of the cpu it seems it...

JavaScript performance is an evergreen topic on the web. With each new release of Microsoft Edge, we look at user feedback and telemetry data to identify opportunities to improve the Chakra JavaScript engine and enable better performance on real sites. In this post, we’ll walk you through some...

Scrolling is one of the oldest interactions on the web. Long before we had pull-to-refresh or infinite-loading lists, the humble scrollbar solved the web’s original scaling problem: how can we interact with content that’s stretched beyond the available viewport...

A new benchmark will soon be coming to 3DMark as reported in their blog ''Time Spy is a new DirectX 12 benchmark test, coming soon to all Windows editions of 3DMark. With its pure DirectX 12 engine, built from the ground up to support new features like asynchronous compute, explicit...

In Windows 10, the Chakra JavaScript engine powers Link Removed and Windows applications written in HTML/CSS/JS. However with JavaScript’s increasing popularity in beyond-the-browser scenarios, developers have been requesting to host the Chakra engine outside the browser to enable JavaScript...

Windows is an unknown platform for me. I need to place an action button in windows task bar, after minimizing the running application. I don't know what to search for my need. Detail : I have an application that will just connect to an another machine in a local network. This is done by python...

It won't be with us just yet but an MSDN blog explains what the new API will mean for the future of gaming: Read the full blog here: Link Removed

Does anyone know if there is a way for the user to tweak something in Win 7 Ulimate 64 it so that Pinnacle Studio 15 will use all 12 threads? Or is this restriction something imposed by the code in Studio. I was expecting a a 25% rendering speed improvement by moving from a 4 core intel to a 6...

My boss does a lot of DJ work so he has a lot of music. He uses AudioComparer to find duplicates of his music and deletes them. He upgraded his HP Compaq DC7800p running XP Pro 32bit from a Core 2 Duo E8600 to a Core 2 Quad Q6600. He ran the AudioComparer program and it only uses one of the...

hello everybody I have a laptop with a processor i7-740qm (4 cores- 8 threads) it is rated 1.73ghz, and I am trying to play red alert 2 on my windows 7. as I have noticed that the game runs very slowly, so the question is how can I run these old games like red alert to work on a multi threaded...

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Fixes an issue in which a multithreaded application might crash during the name resolution process. This issue occurs in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2. More...

Excuseme, I want to develop Windows Sidebar like a Google Desktop. I saw a web-page how to make windows sidebar and gadget using HTML and script. but i wnat to know to make Windows Sidebar using Program Language like C, MFC, C#... etc. becauese I have to make a Program using MultiThread...