People like things that are fast: cars, food, dental appointments, and we love our computers to be as quick as digitally possible. Unfortunately, when a lot of PCs are past their prime, and time has allowed cruft to buildup in every crevice, your computer doesn’t seem to be as fast anymore, at least not as [...]

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The Windows Registry can be a mysterious beast. It’s a vast database that Windows uses to store and retrieve data about installed applications, hardware, and various settings that affect your entire system. It’s true that if you or a misbehaving program messes up the registry, then your system may become defunct as a result. Thankfully, [...]

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Optical drives are starting to show their age. Sure, a DVD disc can hold a lot of data, but reading all that binary goodness with a laser eye is becoming a slow process when compared to the read/write speed of flash memory devices. Still, DVDs are light years ahead of installing Windows from floppy disks! [...]

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Windows 7 is right around the corner, but until then, you may be stuck with Vista and its annoying hard drive issues, such as frequent disk thrashing. Have you ever left your PC idle and heard it toiling in the background, the hard drives whirring about like files were being mysteriously moved around? This is [...]

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Your PC is a volatile environment. Innumerable variable interactions occur every time you boot up your box. Files are written, read, rearranged, and shifted on disk; programs output, input, and manipulate their data in memory; new hardware is introduced or becomes defunct in your system. The list goes on and on. It’s common for your [...]

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