Speed up Windows 7 with ReadyBoost

Did you ever use the ReadyBoost feature on Windows Vista? Remember how your otherwise sluggish rig with 512 MB RAM suddenly handled Vista a lot better, as soon as you plugged in that teensy-weensy little pen drive? ReadyBoost was one of the few points about Vista that was actually well-received by most users of that [...]

Stop Windows 7 thumbnail animation preview

Windows 7 has brought a truckload of graphical enhancements with it, which are sure to test the capabilities of your video card. One of the most notable features is the Thumbnail Animation Preview, visible when you minimize any window to the Taskbar. The feature shows a thumbnail preview of the window, which you have minimized, [...]

Password protect Internet Explorer 8

Is your home PC used by a number of people in your family, especially kids? Then it might make sense to password protect internet access with a password. It is not always possible to monitor kids when they are happily clicking away. You can never be sure of what websites they are surfing through, until [...]

Tips to speed up Windows 7 for free

Windows 7 is pretty scalable as an operating system (OS), meaning that it can be made to consume significantly less system resources than it usually does, making it run well on less powerful systems. Here are top 10 ways to speed up Windows 7 and give your PC a performance boost.
Speed up boot time

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Tweaks to Speed Up Vista and Internet Connection

Windows Vista is a pretty resource-hungry operating system, and if you have a PC with moderate amount of resources, you would definitely want to optimize the memory usage as much as you possibly can. Here are a set of tweaks that you can apply to your PC, in order to make Vista run a lot [...]

How to increase PC Speed with Defragmentation

Defragging is a utility program that is run through the system in order to better its performance speed and the end performance of the system. Defragging the computer should be done as a routine in order to enhance the performance of the system as a whole. The occurrence of errors within the system may cause [...]

Tweak CPU Speed by Process Scheduling

Does your PC run in a snail-like pace even when you seem to have just a couple of applications running? Then you should take a long, hard look at the processes running in the background. Many of those processes may be used only once or twice per session, but they keep squeezing the juice out [...]

Getting Rid Of Unused Files (Disk Clean Up)

Does your PC regularly act sluggish and take a lot of time to open up the folders in the system? This can be due to a number of reasons. While it may be that your PC is just low on resources, it may also be that you have too many unused files in your hard [...]