Speed up your boot time

[WAD62]

I'd advise nukeing a PC as soon as you buy it, i.e. format the HD and reinstall the OS, they come full of 'bloatware' (crap you'll never use or want) these days, which all slows things down, particularly at boot up time...this will also reduce the RAM requirements.

It also removes the usual pointless dual partition that vendors are so keen on.

And as long as you don't use IE (firefox or chrome are much better IMHO) to go on the net then you don't need any anti virus, unless you''re going to some odd pages, or do loads of downloads of specialist stuff, so that can speed things up too.

And like the man said earlier, defrag your HDs on a regular basis, and don't go over 70% full on your system disk.

I wouldn't trust a program like this, how could they have possibly tested it enough?

[Batty]

downloading

[Alex_UK]

And as long as you don't use IE (firefox or chrome are much better IMHO) to go on the net then you don't need any anti virus, unless you''re going to some odd pages, or do loads of downloads of specialist stuff, so that can speed things up too.

All good advice, but I'd disagree with you on the Anti Virus side - I've seen potential attacks and malware from very innocent sites, (even audio related ones!) and using Chrome or Firefox not IE... Personally, I'd recommend Microsoft Security Essentials to a home user - non-intrusive, and free as long as you verify your copy of Windows.

[WAD62]

as long as you verify your copy of Windows.

...it was all going so well until then

I'll check it out I only have the one 'bandit' desktop, my laptops are unfortunately legal...

[Clive]

I've had to remove Soluto, it crashed every time I connected via VPN and it only saved me a couple of seconds of boot time on 2 PCs.

[MartinT]

And as long as you don't use IE (firefox or chrome are much better IMHO) to go on the net then you don't need any anti virus, unless you''re going to some odd pages, or do loads of downloads of specialist stuff, so that can speed things up too.

That's poor advice. All machines need AV software, you'd be mad (and minus a machine) in short order if you didn't, no matter how much you might control your website visits. AVG has a small footprint and works very reliably, it even comes in a free version for use at home.

Also, IE9 is superb and certainly better than Firefox. Google Chrome is also very good. I use both.

[Reid Malenfant]

AVG has a small footprint and works very reliably, it even comes in a free version for use at home.

Yes, it even checks web pages before you click on them to show if there is any risk

Also, IE9 is superb and certainly better than Firefox. Google Chrome is also very good. I use both.

Not used them Martin, i think Google spy on us enough, as for Microsoft

Each to their own, i'm still using XP Pro as i know you know

[MartinT]

XP Pro SP3 is a very stable OS and not to be sneezed at. Corporates will go on using it for many years to come as they wait for W7 SP1 before migrating. Vista was and is a dog.

[Reid Malenfant]

SP2 this way, i never installed SP3 as i had seen a few horror stories early on after it was just released.

Very stable system & as i said elsewhere, compatable with a good few programs i use. Pretty sure one of them doesn't gel with Windows 7 from what i have read on here

Not sure where i saw that on here but it might have been a speaker design program that doesn't like it

Perhaps if i don't try to remember it, it'll come to me....

ATB Martin, have a good weekend

[MartinT]

And you, Mark. How's the system re-housing coming along?