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postheadericon 3 Reasons Your Computer Loads Slow

Why your computer loads slow can be attributed to a few reasons within the Windows operating system and because of some types of programs that clog up your memory and CPU usage that slows the computer down when loading to Windows and then when you log into Windows as well. The three main reasons why [...]

postheadericon Free Window Registry Repair

CNET editors’ review Reviewed by: CNET staff on June 04, 2009 Free Window Registry Repair is a refreshingly simple tool for cleaning up your Windows Registry. It lacks the bells and whistles offered by some programs–such as special features for uninstalling programs or managing the Start menu–but thankfully so. This is a program that does [...]

postheadericon How to Add RAM

By Andy Walker Question: How I do I add RAM? Answer:What you’ll find below is an in depth look at how to add memory to your computer to make it perform better. It’s the cheapest way to improve the performance of your computer and to give an older computer a second life for under $100. [...]

postheadericon Add more memory to your computer

Add more memory to your computer I used to have the dining room table all to myself. Taxes, Christmas cards, birthday gift-wrap, household bills—I would spread out until the job was done. Nowadays, with one child drawing pictures, another doing homework, and a third fiddling with Lite-Brite, I’m relegated to a tiny corner—if that much. [...]

postheadericon My Computer Starts Slowly

Most of us these days love the do-it-yourself (DIY) approach to building, making, fixing, altering anything. There is something very empowering about the DIY approach to life. It offers us a certain sense of empowerment – giving us the feeling that we can do or fix almost anything in our daily lives that we may [...]

postheadericon Computer keeps freezing, and is running very slowly. help?

computer keeps freezing, and is running very slowly. help? by A Zen-like Chill – 5/27/05 5:09 PM i am running (or attempting to, now) a self-built computer with the following specs: asus a7v880 motherboard athlon xp 3200 processor 1 gig ram onboard lan soundblaster audigy platinum pro 2zs ati radeon 9800 xt video 120 gig [...]

postheadericon Remove Background Services : How To Speed Up Your Snail

2. Remove Background Services The more work a CPU has to perform, the more power it needs to use. Background processes may go largely unnoticed by us, but the system resources they consume still take some share of run-time and battery power. What we can’t help notice is a gradual performance decline that occurs as [...]

postheadericon Remove Your Desktop Picture

1. Remove File Indexing You may not have heard of file indexing before – but enabling this option on your computer will slow your computers performance markedly. It uses a large volume of the RAM (Memory) on your computer. So – we suggest you disable this service and you will notice the difference immediately. If [...]

postheadericon Computer running very slowly and long boot up time

To mikepyne. Posts deleted. by MarkFlax – 5/16/09 5:45 AM In reply to: Computer running very slowly and long boot up time by birdieboy52001 I deleted all three of your posts. Sorry but site advertising is not permitted. To birdieboy, sorry about that, someone else was attempting to use these forums for advertising. We delete [...]

postheadericon When Your Computer Starts Up Slowly | Walt Mossberg

Here are a few questions I’ve received recently from people like you, and my answers. I have edited and restated the questions a bit, for readability. My Dell PC, which is an older model running Windows XP, is very slow to boot up and I have a lot of icons on my desktop. Does the [...]

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  • chong: Alongside slimming the startup list, also run a diskcleanup. After that a full defrag will help speedup...
  • Eric Hollis: I have no doubt that breaking the symmetry of treating all icons (desktop or not) as windows would...
  • Nancey Haag: After that my machine performed MUCH better. I know this shouldn’t make a difference, but it was...
  • Jacob Bowles: “Well MacOSXHints has it wrong. Sorry guys, what is slowing down your machines is the size of the...
  • Daryl House: To do this set up a cron script to automatically delete it every night at around 2 am.