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Thread ID: 130209 2013-04-01 04:10:00 PCW Mag April Edition for Fools of April Fools Edition? Iantech (16386) PC World Chat
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1334906 2013-04-02 02:47:00 Thanks Nick DeSade (984)
1334907 2013-04-02 07:12:00 Aaaah he's back, I see what it's all about now :D Chilling_Silence (9)
1334908 2013-04-02 07:13:00 Aaaah he's back, I see what it's all about now :D

But do you know what provoked him?
pcuser42 (130)
1334909 2013-04-02 08:09:00 Nope, absolutely no idea? I'm all ears if you know though?

In other news, here's my top ways to speed up your PC:
1) Use CCleaner to get rid of extra temporary crap
2) Defrag your HDD, makes a lot of difference, use Defraggler, free from piriform
3) Stop applications starting on boot, as mentioned by Wainuitech using msconfig
4) Uninstall your Antivirus / Security Suite / Firewall, replace it with NOD32 Antivirus and nothing more, make sure you tell it to detect PUPs.
5) Look at your system RAM, if you're running XP you're gonna want 2GB+. If you're running Vista / 7 then you're gonna want 4GB
6) Investigate a Solid State HDD for your primary HDD and keep your Docs / music / videos / downloads on a mass storage drive.

That's personally where I'd start. 3 applications, nothing more.
Chilling_Silence (9)
1334910 2013-04-02 08:27:00 Add to your List Chill -- TFC www.bleepingcomputer.com -- Temporary File Cleaner, does a better job than Ccleaner, although ccleaner is Ok for general usage.

Example ran Ccleaner today on a persons laptop, took out just over a GB, then ran TFC, removed a further 300MB ( roughly)
wainuitech (129)
1334911 2013-04-02 09:13:00 Done :)pm to me please plod (107)
1334912 2013-04-02 10:05:00 Done :)

Bring one this way. I wanna know please.
goodiesguy (15316)
1334913 2013-04-02 19:37:00 pm to me please
Done :)


Bring one this way. I wanna know please.
Done :)

Anyone else? :p
Nick G (16709)
1334914 2013-04-02 19:44:00 Done :)


Done :)

Anyone else? :p

Please add Cic to PM list.
Cicero (40)
1334915 2013-04-02 19:59:00 Please add Cic to PM list.
Done

I should just post it here but I don't fancy being banned :D
Nick G (16709)
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