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… increase the boot time.

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Additional information about disabling startup programs can also be found on document CHTSR.

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My 2 year old laptop is slowing down dramatically. I have taken off all the junk but it still gets slower. Part of it is the MacAfee program I run on it, but part of it seems to be that now I need a lot more memory. Laptop is not a known name brand but a mail order machine made by Sager (they seem to specialize in gaming laptops for a good price and the screens are excellent). I have sent them emails but not surprisingly they do not respond with how to speed up their machine. I …

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Too many active apps: Every program running on your system slows it down, and you’ll be amazed to learn how many programs load automatically when your PC boots. To see a list of your autoloading apps, select Start, Run, type msconfig, press Enter, and click Startup. (Windows 2000 lacks the msconfig program, but users of that OS can download Mike Lin’s free Startup Control Panel utility.)

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Don’t you hate it when your computer begins to run very slow? I mean, when it takes a long, long time just for your cursor to become active, or when it takes 90 seconds to open up a Microsoft Word document. Besides making sure your computer doesn’t have any viruses (for which I recommend using Ad Aware SE Personal Edition, which is free and is also what Google recommends ), there are a variety of …

IMPORTANT: Never make changes to your Windows Registry without first backing it up.

In Windows 95, I recommend backing up using the utility ERU (Emergency Recovery Utility), from your Win95 CD. Back up the Registry and other start files to a folder on your hard drive for easy recovery in the event of a problem.

In Windows 98, I also recommend using ERU if you have a copy from a Windows 95 CD (ERU isn’t on the Win98 CD). Otherwise, use the native Win98 utility …