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Speed Your PC
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Tips, tricks, and tools to help readers get the most performance out of their XP and Vista based computers.
Recent Posts
Disable Last-Access Date Stamp in Vista
If you are looking for an easy way to open files more quickly in Vista, here is one quicky adjustment that you can make. Anytime a file is opened on an NTFS partition, a date stamp is updated to show the last time that the file was accessed. This is ...
Speed Your PC Blog For Sale
I am unfortunately looking to sell the Speed Your PC Blog and hope to find a buyer that will continue to help grow the site and continue to post quality Windows performance tips and tweaks. If you are interested in taking over this site, please follo...
Disable Vista’s DOS-Era File Compatibility
The vast majority of PC’s running Windows Vista have their hard drives partitioned using the newer NTFS format rather than the older and less efficient FAT32. Expecting that some users would still need to be able to run older 16-bit software fr...
Stop Using The Window’s Uninstaller!
If you are like the vast majority of PC users, you generally uninstall software either by using the Windows uninstall feature or the uninstall program that came packaged with whatever software it is you’re trying to get rid of. While this metho...
Windows 7 Video
For those of you interested in the latest release of Windows 7, here is a really good Windows 7 video preview and walk-through. For the most part, Windows 7 appears to be pretty cool and it is actually less resource intensive that Windows Vista which...
Correcting XP Hang on Startup
If your Windows XP system seems to be hanging for two or three minutes each time you start it up, there may be an easy fix for you. The system hang that I’m referring to is when your desktop will load, but you will be unable to access the Start...

