Some software programs can be optimized to startup faster which might be the appropriate thing to do if they are used regularly by the user. One prime example would be to disable Java in Open Office which speeds up the application at startup quite a bit. It sometimes might be obvious that an application is [...]
System Performance
Even if you take accumulated PC junk out of the equation, the most important factor in in how well your computer runs is the hardware specifications. Windows Vista provides some kind of indicator with its Vista Experience index, but it doesn’t give a whole lot of detail. Here are a few tools which you can [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Test the Speed of your USB Flash Drives
The speed difference of USB Flash Drives that support the USB 2.0 standard can be more than 15 MB/s with maximum speeds of about 30 MB/s for fast drives. That’s still less than modern hard drives are capable of but better than a few years ago. I think it’s really astonishing that there are only [...]