When you look at the Windows Experience Index (WEI), you see certain information about your PC. Have you ever wondered how you can increase the numbers without PC maintenance or purchase of a new PC? This article will detail a hack the WEI and indicate any desired numbers. The reasons for doing this involve the [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

Even if you’ve just bought a brand new computer complete with Windows 7, you may find you’re lacking some power. Most new computers are pretty quick these days, but they are usually set to some default settings that can be tweaked to give you more power for nothing. These tips aim to show you a [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

Have you ever noticed choppy videos, audio or a low frame rate gaming experience under Windows? This could have been caused by other tasks and processes that ran at the same time as that main task. Say, you have decided to render a video that is taxing cpu and hard drive to the maximum. And [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

It is essential to protect your PC with reliable antivirus software. The drawback to this is that it often slows the PC down. In some cases it does so significantly. Some antivirus software can be very thorough and scan “potential invaders” that are part of your normal applications. Many of these programs do not need [...]

Categories: Security, Tutorials Basic

Software can greatly aid the user in optimizing the performance of a Windows operating system. While Windows comes with a set of tools that cover the basics, it misses an all-in-one tool and better performance guidelines. Windows users have to start individual tools like services.msc, msconfig or the uninstallation applet of the Windows Control Panel. [...]

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When you are running high-end applications like games that benefit from every bit of extra computing power and memory they can get you may want to reduce the background processes and services to a minimum so that additional resources become available. Quite a few PC boosting applications have been released in the recent past, among [...]

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The Windows Registry is not defragmented if you defragment your hard drive. This can be quite a problem for users who regularly install and uninstall applications on their system because uninstallers tend to “forget” to remove entries in the Registry during the uninstallation process. It’s astonishing that even the Registry of my brand new system [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Windows

Every passing day makes it more likely that the registry file contains obsolete entries that might make your system unstable. They could also slow down your system. It is a good idea to check obsolete entries in your registry from time to time and remove them to keep the unnecessary entries to a minimum.

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