computer optimization

  1. Speed Up Windows 10/11: 5 Safer Alternatives to Registry Cleaners

    If you still believe a monthly pass with a registry cleaner will somehow make Windows boot faster, it’s time to stop — not because the registry is sacred, but because there are far higher-impact, safer, and well-supported ways to speed up and stabilize a Windows PC than poking at the registry...
  2. Optimize Windows 11 Power & Sleep Settings for Better Performance and Battery Life

    Managing power and sleep settings in Windows 11 is essential for optimizing your device's performance and energy efficiency. By customizing these settings, you can extend battery life, reduce energy consumption, and tailor your system's behavior to your preferences. Accessing Power and Sleep...
  3. Upgrade to Windows 11 Home for Faster, Smarter, Simpler Computing

    You sit down, coffee in hand, ready to get some work done, only to find your computer stuck in molasses. Windows takes its sweet time booting up. Applications crawl to life. Pop-ups from yesteryear haunt your desktop. Is this digital déjà vu? Or are you simply overdue for an upgrade? For...
  4. Windows 7 What happens if I have 2 video drivers installed ?

    I have a Nvidia GeForce 210 graphics card, and firstly, I installed only its driver, and I noticed I had no 'sleep' option. The 'hibernate' option was present instead... Than I installed the on-board card's driver and the 'hibernate' button switched to 'sleep'. And now I have both drivers...
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    Windows 8 Windows 8 Service Configurations

    Black Viper, well known for service configuration settings for Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and has now created a Service Configuration for Windows 8. From Black Viper; Link Removed From my own personal experience, I have found that right clicking on any particular service, then selecting...
  6. Windows 7 I didn't know that it worked this way...

    Hi I posed a few days ago someplace that I found that defragmenting my C:\ drive gave me a real increase in read speed. From about 3 Mbs to 30. I defraged my B:\ drive (a partition of C:\) and today I tacked D:\ it was a long haul, mostly because it has the compressed back up of C:\ on it...
  7. Windows 7 Memory Usage Goes Up Gradually (Memory Leak)

    Memory Usage Goes Up Gradually (Memory Leak) When I starting the Windows (in the first few hours) everything is normal But after 1 day or 2 (sooner or later) the amount of available memory gradually goes down and the physical memory usage increasing. This increasing, continues until the memory...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 maintenance

    Hello, I am not sure if this is the right place for this but anyway here it goes. In general I know (or think) you should do things like run registry cleaner, defragment, duplicate finder, spybot, etc... in order to keep you computer running well. I noticed programs like Norton and Bitdefender...
  9. Windows 7 Trouble Setting RAM Speed to 1600 MHz on Asus Crosshair 3 Formula Motherboard

    My problem is my memory is defaulting to 1333 in the bios I have changed it to 1600 but in windos it is only coming up at like 800 mhz not 1333 or 1600 so i want to get my memory to 1600 Here are my specs Motherboard: Asus Crosshiar 3 Formula CPU: AMD Phenom II 965 3.4 Ghz Memory: 4GB GSKILL...
  10. Windows 7 Where is email prog? And other issues...

    I just installed Win7-RC to my new Intel SSD. It went well. BUT, where the heck is the email program? I can't find it...DUH. And, for now I'm using Cox webmail...YUCK... Also, here is a 'HighjackThis' logfile of my startup items.... what's up w/ some of these? I want as few things running...