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• 24 Nov 08
  

  Don Mego

  Windows

• 14 Jul 08
  

  Wisely

  pcs windows slow slownessup cleaner memory utilities

  • I have found freeware alternatives that in my opinion do more and are easier to use. One such program is "Starter" by a group called CodeStuff.
    
    Their website was not available at this writing, not sure what the story is there, but you can find it all over the web including on Snapfiles: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/starter.html.
    
    This program will show all the applications that launch at Windows Start up.
  • Now that we have removed all the unnecessary applications from launching at start up the next thing to review is "Clean Up". This doesn't always yield faster response but it's a general good practice and may help performance. What happens is over time all your temp files and cache gets loaded up, and there is no process to clean things up. Enter CCleaner: http://www.ccleaner.com/.
  • You may not have this issue but a tool I like to use is a free program provided by Crucial (http://www.crucial.com) called Crucial System Scanner: http://images.crucial.com/drivers/CrucialScan.exe or run it on-line here: What I like about this program is that once run it will tell you what you have installed, what configuration and if you have the ability to increase the memory. No more "cracking the case" just to see how many memory slots are there or if they are all used!

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