One of the most annoying things about today’s PCs and the modern Windows operating system is that, every now and then, Windows has an obnoxious tendency to freeze just as you were doing something important—like saving a Word Document, or about to hit the Send button in your Thunderbird email client. Every user who’s used [...]

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Install enough applications, utilities, shareware, and freeware and you may notice a hitch in your PC’s step during startup or even during runtime. During the many stages of your PC’s boot up process, various programs and services silently load themselves into the background, vying for your computer’s precious resources with other suchlike pieces of code. [...]

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Microsoft certainly hyped up Vista before it was released to the masses. Unfortunately, it’s hard to push an OS when every tech writer is advising sticking with XP until Microsoft introduces Windows 7. But it’s difficult to find a new PC that isn’t already loaded with Vista; sure, some hardware vendors offer a downgrade to [...]

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