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        <title><![CDATA[More tips]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I addition, one should be adjusting its PC for best performance instead appearance. Compromising on Appearance, results in high speed so you should adjust your PC for best performance.moreover, Along with disk defragmentation, doing Registry Defrag also helps programs to load faster. you can defrag registry with help of safe registry cleaners like Registry Recycler (http://www.registryrecycler.com/).Plus, regular maintenance such as cleaning temp files and browser clean up is important for overall speed increment.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[zaidmark]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 22:47:08 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I don't trust Microsoft Security Essentials]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[av-comparatives.org has tested Microsoft Security Essentials and found it wanting. In the most recent file-detection report (September 2012; I believe another is due this month), MSE missed 5% of the malware samples. That's a lot! Only two products were worse, PC Tools and Webroot.See http://av-comparatives.org/images/docs/avc_fdt_201209_en.pdfNo anti-virus program is perfect, but MSE is too too imperfect, even if one person has had good results.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bob in upstate NY]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 08:24:19 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Systinternals]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[For #1 and #2, a competent tech can use Autoruns. This is the superuser version of MSCONFIG. If you're in an enterprise environment and have mapped drives; use a batch file at startup to &quot;net use&quot; to the mapped drives each time instead of letting Windows handle it. I've found this saves 5-10 seconds if you have 5 or more mapped drives and printers.(#5) Sticking to Sysinternals, use RAMMAP to observe and troubleshoot your memory. Identify heavyhitting apps and eliminate/mitigate them. (#3) Schedule a 'spring cleaining' for your system to remove old apps and archive personal files and pictures. And everyone once in a while, test out your backup-recovery plan.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Audiblenod]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 06:52:52 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Optimize Your Windows Registry]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Perform Windows Registry Reorgs regularly. A cluttered Registry may have a significant impact to system performance.How to ...Create a System Restore Point following immediately by recovering the system using this newly created System Restore Point.Note ... It is best to do this after taking your regular System Backup and have cut a new bootable System Repair &quot;Disc&quot; after completion of the System Backup.Also consider looking at Windows utilities which provide this service.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[StevenDDeacon]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:32:41 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nice post!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Very usefull for me! Tks!-------------------- Asean Vietnam Travel  Bang dinh]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[vietit21]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:48:29 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Windows 7]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Disabling unnecessary services is also a good way to speed up your system. Also minimizing the amount of programs that automatically start up when you boot. Microsoft Security Essentials is an excellent anti-malware. I also prefer McAffee as my anti-virus, it is definitely the best. Set up scheduled scans on your PC or laptop to avoid future attacks as well.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[thawks88]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:24:23 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Defrag]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Defrag is good, no matter what. It is still needed, no matter what. It helps with compacting things down, and freeing some drive space.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sir_Twist]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:30:49 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ready boost]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Not 4 gig, as 4 gig will only allow you to use 2 gig for ready boost. 8 or more will help, a little. And only if you have enough USB slots to do it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sir_Twist]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:23:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ready boost]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Ready boost will take a little over half of what is on a flash drive. So a 2 gig flash drive will &quot;boost&quot; your system up to 1 gig, maybe a tad more. 4 gig, 2 gig. 8 gig, 4 gig, 16 gig, about 8 gig, etc. So, 8 gig should be the smallest, unless you have 4 gig of memory already. 16 or more would help, to a point.As to malware/suspicious sites, a good anti-virus, anti-malware (MalwareBytes Anti-Malware is great), and OpenDNS all help.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sir_Twist]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:19:12 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Network drive]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have a network drive, so I can access things. In order for me to find things in anything other than XP, I just use a search engine, and type in where is thisflie.xxx and search. I am careful when I do that, as sometimes the files are in different places, or I could even get to a website I don't want to go to. Most of the time, though, I do rather well on that subject, and I don't need to search for everything all the time. Just when I am playing games on both my desktop and laptop, and can't find where to put the files from XP into 7 to play the game from where I left off.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sir_Twist]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:11:08 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[True]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I know that Windows itself has some stuff that maybe needed to run it. I have about 45 processes right now, some are what I need to run parts of my system, like my mouse driver, and also the drivers for my sound card. I have a Razer Lachesis mouse, and a Creative Sound Blaster sound card. I can't really give those up, in order to increase memory, but I do shut down other things I don't need.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Sir_Twist]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:06:29 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[more msconfig]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Nothing really wrong with msconfig.  Some garbage keeps getting reinstalled unless you are obsessed with avoiding websites and installs. Using regedit and searching for the related file system objects to get rid of something which will very likely get reinstalled later is not for everyone. Not everything can be located easily with search in regedit, particularly if it is encrypted or used odd key names. It depends on the circumstance whether you really have the time and inclination to be a purist, and, for me, paying someone else to clean my PC feels like hiring a male prostitute for my wife.   Use the Windows image create just in case and make exports of the keys you are touching.  With a good image (and restore disk) available, you can hack away without too much fear.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[enderby!]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 04:52:44 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[autoruns]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Surprised no one has mentioned the great freebie autoruns (now owned by ms) to manage/disable/delete startup items, services, tasks, etc, as well as to get a comprehensive overview of codecs, drivers, and other stuff installed. It will also take you directly to the registry entry if so desired.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[zwayne]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:07:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I don't know about Security Essentials...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I started working for a small company with 25 computers, and in the past 5 months, I've had to clean one computer that had several rootkits (one was ZeroAccess) and many trojans, exploiters, etc.  I've also had two others that were infected while I was here, and I was able to stop them and get them straight pretty quickly.  The only antivirus that was installed was Security Essentials.  Since then, I have enabled/installed Windows Defender, Avast, and kept the Security Essentials, and have had no more problems.  I also run the occasional MalwareBytes scan, just to be safe.  Don't ever depend on just one antivirus solution.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Monijo2]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 06:22:18 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When dealing with speed on a system for an end user ....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'm one of these geeks that takes care of a lot of end users in our company.  I have learned, and try to teach my team members something about understanding when an end user complains about speed.  Don't always assume that it is the speed of the computer or Windows they are actually complaining about.  A lot of times it's the speed of a program or the start up speed where they have changed something that they thought would speed up the first time on in the morning (like putting Outlook and IE into the start menu, or having 10 home pages in their browser).So before you start looking for bloatware, or extra items in MSconfig, interview the end user.  Have them show you what they are talking about.  I've had people say &quot;my computer is so slow&quot; and come to find out they are doing wide parameter searches in our County Document Imaging program.  There is 7TB of data they can search through, and they'll have it search through 5TB of it.  Or they try going to a certain website, and it's always slow to open.  Here again, it's not the computer that's slow but that's the only way they know how to explain it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[garry@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[msconfig]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Gotta admit. I'm one of those hobbyist &quot;genius experts&quot;.Thanks for answering my question, but please allow me to rephrase it.I noticed that in Windows 7, msconfig actually tells you the date items were disabled. Gives me the impression it's not just a temporary tool, at least in W7. I really meant to ask, what could go wrong with leaving the settings changed in msconfig? With your alternate solution, regedit, I know one mistake can mess up the whole system.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[hillelana]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:17:21 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Defrag? Really?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[With 500GB or 1TB disks being the norm, defragging is hardly necessary anymore.  Generally, by the time a defrag would do any good, you may as well wipe and reinstall Windows itself.  Happily, even that is not necessary like was up through the XP days.If you're running 64-bit, memory is so dirt cheap you may as well get at least 8GB.  When I upgraded my work PC from 4GB to 8GB a week or so ago, the 4GB cost $28.   Shove in another 4GB and turn the page file off - Windows has gotten better, but it still likes paging way more than is necessary.  If you're feeling ambitious, get 16GB, use a utility like ImDisk to create an 8GB startup RAM drive and point programs to that for temp/caching.  I had a SQLite db I would load into my RAM drive and queries that would take nearly a minute from HDD would take 10 seconds from RAM.Avoiding multiple A/V packages is solid advice - I recently cleaned up a C2D desktop running Vista that took nearly 15 minutes to fully boot.  Once it did, I discovered the problem was not spyware or viruses...it was 4 different A/V programs and two more anti-spy/'tuner' programs that would all start up on boot.All that said, this article seems a little mis-aimed.  This might be good advice to post up on MSN or Yahoo, not TR.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[fluxtatic]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:16:11 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[MSCONFIG]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There's absolutely nothing wrong with using MSCONFIG as a troubleshooting tool to temporarily alter startup. It was never designed to be used on a permanent basis though. It was designed to allow you to easily turn things on/off and test the results. After things are the way you like them, go and make the necessary permanent changes and put MSCONFIG back in normal startup mode.It's a troubleshooting tool, an excellent one, but a tool nonetheless.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[John.P.Dearing@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:09:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[And the often forgotten MFT]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In many years looking how to speed up Windows systems, I came to this conclusion draw from experience: if I run a utility to &quot;wipe&quot; or to &quot;compact&quot; the MFT, the system will run snappiest than ever. That should be done along with the rest of the other steps. Windows do spend a lot of time going through that MFT for its file accesses. If you have many many files, lets say from having temporarily backuped user files or that kind of thigns, your MFT is bloated and a treatment to it will do wonders. Alas there are very few utilities to do that. I have found R-Wipe&amp;Clean and a product from Paragon.Best regards,Roberto]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[rpetitpas@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:46:17 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I don't agree]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If you don't use a network drive (like me) - no problem. If you do use a network drive - don't ask Windows to index it. Simple. I wouldn't give away my indexing for quids. Allows me to search the 80,000 files in my data partition for text or filename in a split second.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jonc2011]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 05:26:35 -0700</pubDate>
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