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postheadericon Slow Computer? Ten Ways to Speed Up Your PC

And Most of Them Are Free Let’s face it: the longer you use a computer the slower it gets. It’s not because your hardware is dying, at least not most of the time. There are many reasons your computer slows down. Before buying a new computer, try the following to increase performance. Scan your computer [...]

postheadericon How do I clean my laptop?

How do I clean my laptop? Question: How do I clean my laptop? Answer: Unfortunately, unlike the standard desktop, a laptop is not as easy to open and clean. However, there are still several steps an end-user can do to clean and maintain their laptop or portable device. Before cleaning any computer, we suggest the [...]

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 Ways to Improve the Performance of Your Laptop

A computer that is bought new may work faster but as the time passes, its performance degrades and it may not run at the same speed as it was. This generally happens because the system gets filled with the more and more applications over the time and sometimes even the Virus or malicious files in [...]

postheadericon A Laptop Blog: 3 Tips to Speed Up Your Laptop

Its a bummer when your laptop is running sluggishly and applications take forever to load. It could be that your laptop is old, or maybe the system is just being bogged down. Luckily, there are several ways to help get your laptop back up to speed that dont require taking it to the laptop repair [...]

postheadericon Clean Sweep Computer

Have you ever found your computer having hundreds of icons without even knowing where it came from and what is it for? Well, computer owners tend to install programs that they need once and forget all about it once the project is done. As a result dozens of icons are covering your wallpaper and your [...]

postheadericon How To Clean Up A Slow Computer?

Are you looking for ways on how to clean up a slow computer? Having a slow computer is very frustrating, especially when you have a piece of work that you need to rush. It is something that every computer user will experience. This article aims to explain some of the reasons behind a slow computer, [...]

postheadericon How to Clean Your Windows Registry and Speed Up Your PC

Registry Scan; click to view full-size image.

Let’s start with a little quiz. I say “Big, bloated, and full of errors.” What do you say? Right, “Windows Registry.” One more: “Messing with it is risky.” If you guessed the Registry again, you pass. While fooling around with your Windows Registry does involve some risk, cleaning it out can have an impact on [...]

postheadericon Clean Up and Speed Up That Sluggish PC

Stick me in front of the computer after lunch and I’m as sluggish as a hard drive that hasn’t been housecleaned in a year. So when my PC starts acting listless–you know, straining to open files or programs–the first thing I think about is hard drive clutter. I start by checking the drive that holds [...]

postheadericon Computer Clean Up

With all of the recent news stories about identity theft, it got me thinking about my PC. What kinds of information did I have stored on it? And is it really something that a hacker might want? After a little digging around (and several Internet tutorials later!) I was astounded at the amount of personal [...]

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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.