Neowin News Feed for: Optimization

Microsoft claims Copilot can replace Power BI optimization experts right now

Usama Jawad — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:12:02 +0000

Microsoft claims you no longer need to hire expensive Power BI optimization experts. With Copilot, a task that took days could now be done in minutes. Read more...

Microsoft engineer shows how bad code can lead to your Windows PC slowing down

Sayan Sen — Thu, 22 May 2025 08:28:01 +0000

A Microsoft engineer has realized one of the problems haunting modern Windows systems, leading them to be slow system hogs. Read more...

Intel sees Linux performance jump nearly 4000% or 40 times from one line of code

Sayan Sen — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 07:32:01 +0000

Intel spots a single line of code that sees Linux gain a massive nearly 40 times or 4000% performance gain. Read more...

Nvidia could now leave Intel and AMD completely in the dust with AI-optimized drivers

Sayan Sen — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 17:26:01 +0000

After recently touting its much superior Windows display driver release frequency and optimization, Nvidia is now rumored to be working on AI-optimized drivers which could further extend its lead. Read more...

AMD says Windows 11 performance boost is coming soon to its Ryzen 7000X3D, and possibly more

Sayan Sen — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 17:44:01 +0000

AMD announced its new Ryzen 7000X3D processors earlier. The company says it worked with Microsoft, and others, to optimize Windows 11 (and possibly Windows 10), to best take advantage of the new CPUs. Read more...

OnePlus: Yes, we throttle some popular apps but not to manipulate benchmarks

Usama Jawad — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 06:12:01 +0000

OnePlus has admitted to throttling certain popular apps such as Facebook, Instagram, Chrome, Microsoft Office, and more on its OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro handsets. It says that it does this for optimization. Read more...

Cyberpunk 2077 DLC is still listed as coming in 'early 2021' but don't get your hopes up

Usama Jawad — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 11:26:01 +0000

News has been circulating that CDPR has recently revealed a new webpage which claims that free DLC for Cyberpunk 2077 will start arriving in early 2021. Unfortunately, this isn't quite true. Read more...

Canonical improves snap performance significantly in latest update

Paul Hill — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 13:56:01 +0000

Canonical has updated snap in order to make software open up much quicker. By including fontconfig cache binaries in snap, it made GUI applications open between two and six times faster. Read more...

Faster websites will soon get priority on Google Search results on mobile

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 22:46:02 +0000

The search giant will be tweaking its formula for search results in order to optimise the experience for mobile users. Pages that load faster will be given priority over slower websites. Read more...

Windows 10 Threshold 2 rumored to launch in November

Usama Jawad — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 13:55:36 +0000

Windows 10 Threshold 2 update might launch in November, slightly later than the previously rumored October release date. It will primary focus on optimization along with a few new features. Read more...

Process Lasso 5.1.1.2

Razvan Serea — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 06:34:52 +0000

Process Lasso is an automated Windows process (program) management and optimization utility. Process Lasso is NOT yet another task manager. Process Lasso uses virtually no system resources itself. Read more...

Process Lasso 5.1.1.0

Razvan Serea — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:57:26 +0000

Process Lasso 5.1.0.88

Razvan Serea — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:36:51 +0000

Process Lasso 5.1.0.84

Razvan Serea — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 06:41:24 +0000

CCleaner 3.05.1408

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:41:59 +0000

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of... Read more...

Adding Soap To Optimization Software

Mon, 29 Apr 2002 16:29:32 +0000

Core technologies comprising Web services provide only a fraction of what's needed to build an enterprise-level IT system. While Web-services standards are useful for application integration, they don't provide for many services crucial to a... Read more...

Drug Design Optimization Lab 0.6 Beta

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:08:23 +0000

SENGENT OFFERS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE PUBLIC TO CONTRIBUTE TO THIS KEY RESEARCH EFFORT AGAINST BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS The Sengent Drug Design Optimization Lab is working to identify an orally available small molecule... Read more...