Comments on: How to speed up your computer http://www.wordplop.com/2008/03/31/how-to-speed-up-your-computer/ Reviews, news, tutorials, gaming, web, gadgets, and more Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:11:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Why you should defragment your hard drive « WordPlop - Reviews, news, tutorials, gaming, web, gadgets, and more http://www.wordplop.com/2008/03/31/how-to-speed-up-your-computer/#comment-2625 Why you should defragment your hard drive « WordPlop - Reviews, news, tutorials, gaming, web, gadgets, and more Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:34:39 +0000 http://www.wordplop.com/?p=35#comment-2625 [...] recommend is Defraggler, made by the same company that makes CCleaner (another great program for speeding up your computer). To give you an example of what Defraggler or a similar defragmenting program can accomplish: my [...] [...] recommend is Defraggler, made by the same company that makes CCleaner (another great program for speeding up your computer). To give you an example of what Defraggler or a similar defragmenting program can accomplish: my [...]

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]]> By: WordPlop http://www.wordplop.com/2008/03/31/how-to-speed-up-your-computer/#comment-21 WordPlop Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:02:49 +0000 http://www.wordplop.com/?p=35#comment-21 @ J. Donner: You're right, computers are meant to run more apps now. But the average person doesn't know what should be running. Once my math teacher brought her home laptop to do a presentation, and it was horrid seeing 30+ apps in the tray and all the popups appearing. It took no less than 10 minutes to start the thing. And it affects RAM usage much more than CPU usage. Most people I know have 256-512 MB RAM. They can't run the things I can with 4GB. @ J. Donner: You’re right, computers are meant to run more apps now. But the average person doesn’t know what should be running. Once my math teacher brought her home laptop to do a presentation, and it was horrid seeing 30+ apps in the tray and all the popups appearing. It took no less than 10 minutes to start the thing.

And it affects RAM usage much more than CPU usage. Most people I know have 256-512 MB RAM. They can’t run the things I can with 4GB.

]]> By: J. Donner http://www.wordplop.com/2008/03/31/how-to-speed-up-your-computer/#comment-20 J. Donner Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:48:25 +0000 http://www.wordplop.com/?p=35#comment-20 While I agree that it's foolish to have programs like messenger running in your system bar during boot, lots of ohter sofwtare is important to load. This is not 1995, computers are made to load more crap, so loaded when it's needed to run at any time. Take me for example, I run in the systembar after boot; - firewall (needed, better than Windows firewall for outgoing traffic) - virusscanner (needed) - UPS monitoring and test software (needed,epecially in my area!) - Calender with advanced reminder (everyone needs one if you ask me) - Drive monitoring (checks conditions of 4 hard drives for S.M.A.R.T. paramaters to predict failure (I have 1.2TB). If you care about data, use it! S.M.A.R.T is invented for a reason!) - Backup software (Same story, if you care about your data, use it! Allows scheduled backups, Vista backup program is good but not good enough for me) - Encryption software (allows me to open encrypted containers that act like drives. Great for protecting important data,impossible to crack) - LAN messaging (so that people don't have to yell at me from a distance, not really needed, but useful) 8 programs isn't all that bad. I have been doing this for almost 10 years and never had compatibility issues or slowdowns like you pretend is going to happen. Average CPU usage on idle is 0-2. Conflicts were avoided by installing one program at a time and running it for a week before adding the next program, never had any issues on XP or Vista with reliability or slowdown; this is not the age of Windows 98/ME! While I agree that it’s foolish to have programs like messenger running in your system bar during boot, lots of ohter sofwtare is important to load. This is not 1995, computers are made to load more crap, so loaded when it’s needed to run at any time.

Take me for example, I run in the systembar after boot;

- firewall (needed, better than Windows firewall for outgoing traffic)
- virusscanner (needed)
- UPS monitoring and test software (needed,epecially in my area!)
- Calender with advanced reminder (everyone needs one if you ask me)
- Drive monitoring (checks conditions of 4 hard drives for S.M.A.R.T. paramaters to predict failure (I have 1.2TB). If you care about data, use it! S.M.A.R.T is invented for a reason!)
- Backup software (Same story, if you care about your data, use it! Allows scheduled backups, Vista backup program is good but not good enough for me)
- Encryption software (allows me to open encrypted containers that act like drives. Great for protecting important data,impossible to crack)
- LAN messaging (so that people don’t have to yell at me from a distance, not really needed, but useful)

8 programs isn’t all that bad. I have been doing this for almost 10 years and never had compatibility issues or slowdowns like you pretend is going to happen. Average CPU usage on idle is 0-2.
Conflicts were avoided by installing one program at a time and running it for a week before adding the next program, never had any issues on XP or Vista with reliability or slowdown; this is not the age of Windows 98/ME!

]]> By: Rob http://www.wordplop.com/2008/03/31/how-to-speed-up-your-computer/#comment-18 Rob Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:09:51 +0000 http://www.wordplop.com/?p=35#comment-18 Thanks for these tips, I'm going to try them later. I need to find ways to speed up my Vista machine! Thanks for these tips, I’m going to try them later. I need to find ways to speed up my Vista machine!

]]> By: skinnny101 http://www.wordplop.com/2008/03/31/how-to-speed-up-your-computer/#comment-17 skinnny101 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:25:05 +0000 http://www.wordplop.com/?p=35#comment-17 good tips, I ran CCleaner for the first time in a few years today and it found 6GBs or rubbish :O www.TheFlywire.net - Everything computers and more. good tips, I ran CCleaner for the first time in a few years today and it found 6GBs or rubbish :O

http://www.TheFlywire.net – Everything computers and more.

]]> By: Michael Aulia http://www.wordplop.com/2008/03/31/how-to-speed-up-your-computer/#comment-19 Michael Aulia Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:11:20 +0000 http://www.wordplop.com/?p=35#comment-19 Good tips. Most of my friends' computers become so slow because of spywares or background programs Good tips. Most of my friends’ computers become so slow because of spywares or background programs

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