Beware of the bandwidth thieves

Barry Collins is tired of companies stealing bandwidth for software updates and patches

Here’s a simple maths puzzle. If your monthly broadband data cap is 10GB and Microsoft secretly swallows 4GB of that without your permission, how angry would you be (show your working)?

Leave it ON or switch it OFF?

There’s much debate about whether you should leave your devices switched on all the time or turn them off when they’re not in use. Rob Beattie weighs up the pros and cons

Boost your security using hacker tricks

Protect yourself from cybercriminals by using their own tools to fight them. Robert Irvine explains the best free and legal ways to turn the tables on the bad guys

Best iOS content blockers

With the release of iOS 9, Apple has opened up Safari to content-blocking software, to keep your mobile browser free of ads and other distractions. But which of these new apps is the best? Andy Shaw puts them to the test

Hack Your Own PC!

Messing with the Registry can be risky, but it can also yield impressive results. Wayne Williams presents the 27 best Registry tweaks to customise, enhance and speed up Windows

Many PC users deliberately avoid fiddling with the Registry, preferring to leave system tweaks to software such as CCleaner. But provided you’re careful and know how to undo any changes you make, there are plenty of benefits to delving under the bonnet of your computer, such as customising Windows to make it look and behave the way you want, speeding up your PC and turning off features you don’t need. In this feature, we’ve rounded up 27 of the best secret Registry hacks for boosting the performance of your PC without messing it up.