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You can pay for third-party PC optimization software to make your computer run more smoothly, but Microsoft PC Manager does ...

Microsoft recently started offering users of modern SSDs an option to significantly increase their drive speeds. Specifically, this involves a performance boost for NVMe drives. NVMe stands for ...

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