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Check out my site of free PC/Internet Tools -> http://www.geocities.com/web_mgr/tools.html.
My main rules with slow computers are: spyware/virus removal, temp files erased, defrag and registry clean.
This can all be done with the free tools on my site.
If you know/use others, pls let me know.
Chas Beach, web_mgr@yahoo.com
Good luck with all :)
If you are going to expect us to allow you to post links to your blog, as a matter of courtesy, we expect you to link from your site to ours.
Thanks for sharing this useful information.
Can you please comment on WinUtilities 6.2 Full Version that GAOTD is offering today?
In how many i have to delete temporary files , so that computer never slows down.
A section you can add to your website: Disable unneeded services.
I just started experimenting with disabling services I don't use, and it is AMAZING what a difference it makes to the speed of my PC, including startup and shutdown! Startup is now down to only 20 seconds.
For my XP Home PC, I disabled the following services, with no weird results so far:
COM+, Computer Browser, Distributed Link Tracking Client, IPSEC, Secondary Logon, Server, Web Client, Windows Firewall (I use ZoneAlarm as a replacement), Net location awareness, SSDP Discovery, Terminal Services.
I'll test drive my PC for a while with this setup, and if it is stable enough, disable even more services. :-)
Ed Bott strongly suggests that attempts to disable windows services in an effort to improve system efficiency are counter productive and probably unsafe.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=448
"On an otherwise healthy PC running Windows Vista, disabling most built-in Windows services is extremely unlikely to have any noticeable effect on memory usage, startup or shutdown time, or system performance. On the contrary, you are more likely to create problems by disabling services. Not to mention the amount of time you will surely waste and the productivity you will lose with all that starting and stopping and rebooting and web searching."
Another good reason to steer clear of Vista. ;-) I'll stick to XP and continue to dabble with Linux.
lol. Where were the days when everyone (even Microsot) always recommended that all unused services should be disabled, for security reasons? In Vista it is now the other way round! Keep all the services running, use up all available memory and feed the resource hog, just to "make it more secure"...
Hmm. Anybody else spot something wrong with this picture?
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