Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Tweak and Speed up your PC.


Looks like today is a day of PC maintenance posts. Foxnews has an excellent and useful article called "How to Maximize your Performance in Windows Vista." (I'm still upset that my Windows Vista experience has been sour- still waiting on drivers for my video card). The article is written by Joel Durham, Jr. from Extreme Tech, a computer builder's site.

It offers some useful tips to help you tweak and keep Vista running smooth and fast. I'll definitely check back with this article if I ever get Vista running right.

" Performance is probably the most coveted intangible when it comes to PCs, and tweaking, to the performance hungry, is considered more of a necessity than an option.

Gearheads go to great lengths to get quicker system response times, faster-running games and shorter PC boot-up and shutdown times.

One way is to overclock the heck out of the poor components (and then, for bragging rights, to log on to a message board and claim a stable CPU frequency of about 300MHz faster than what's actually possible). Another way is to tweak out the operating system itself."

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