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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 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 [...]

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 Top 10 Ways to Speed Up My PC

After sometimes, all computers start to operate slowly. You will notice that your computer is no longer fast because the programs take longer to load and the computer sounds like a train every time you start it up. Here are the things that you need to do to speed up your computer. 1. De-fragment- This [...]

postheadericon Top 5 Free Programs to Clean Up Your Computer

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Top 5 Free Programs to Clean Up Your Computer Posted on 06. Aug, 2008 by Kyle Judkins in Software Advertisements Most of us don’t keep our computer as clean as it should be. I’m not talking about the exterior (although I’m sure that could be cleaned as well). I’m talking about cleaning up your hard [...]

postheadericon Top 10 ways to speed up your computer

The list below describes the top ten ways you can speed up your computer through either general maintenance or hardware upgrades. I tried to list some things other than just the obvious ones most places always list. Now there are of course many more. First Off, Install PC Power Suite and let it scan and [...]

postheadericon Top 5 Vista Tweaks to Increase Internet Speed

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Top 5 Vista Tweaks to Increase Internet Speed They say that life’s most difficult tribulations also result in the greatest insights and wisdom once you’re through it. Let’s just say that purchasing a brand new laptop with Vista installed on it was one of my greatest tribulations to date. So I’m taking this opportunity to [...]

postheadericon Top Ten 10 Tips To Improve Computer Speed

Top Ten Tips To Improve System Speed 1.Let your PC boot up completely before opening any applications. 2.Refresh the desktop after closing any application. This will remove any unused files from the RAM. 3.Do not set very large file size images as your wallpaper. Do not keep a wallpaper at all if your PC is [...]

postheadericon Top 8 Programs That Can Make Your Computer Run Faster

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Top 8 Programs That Can Make Your Computer Run Faster It’s a common problem among computer users: after a few months, our computers become weighed down by programs and all sorts of other junk, and inevitably become sluggish. For the less tech-savvy users, this may induce thoughts like “Why is my computer so terrible?” or [...]

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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.