Comments on: 7 Tips To Keep Your PC Running At Peak Performance.

By: john ilko

john ilko — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 07:41:41 +0000

Fantastic tips! I wish I could have written an article that helpful on my DSL speed test blog . http://bandwidthspeedtest.blogspot.com congrats!

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:00:37 +0000

Good one.

By: JC

JC — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:59:48 +0000

Scrivs, you have a typo. You meant nailed, right?

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:52:37 +0000

Indeed, this is one of those articles that should be mailed to family members.

By: JC

JC — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:06:09 +0000

yeah, and it doesn’t affect my BeOS box, either, Ben. Or my TI 99/4a. Just the windows machines most people think of when you say “PC” rather than “Mac.”

No offense, it just baffles me why linux people have to keep harping on it. We know. It’s been said. Repeatedly. All over the place.

This article is, I’d think, more intended for the convenience of the technical folks who read this site than their enlightenment in basic Windows maintenance. It’s something I can email to the next person who asks me why their computer is slow rather than killing an hour explaining it to them in my own words.

By: Rodent Regatta

Rodent Regatta — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:24:53 +0000

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By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:39:01 +0000

Another thing that will help is if you setup a static sized page file, rather then the default dynamic page file size. You can google this for more information.

Also under optimizing your system, windows 2000, and XP have a ton of default services running that are not needed. Index service, UPNP service, etc. The less programs running the better.

Note this is coming from a unix admin that “deals” with windows at times and this is what I have found useful.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:04:43 +0000

This article should be called: 7 tips to keep your Windows PC running. None of the above are a problem on a Linux PC…