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Speed up the Windows boot process with this quick and easy idea
If your PC takes forever to boot then one common way to improve the situation is to disable unnecessary Windows services. That means less activity when your system starts, and so it should come to life...
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Cut your PCs boot time with WinPatrol
It’s no secret that all too many applications still install unnecessary startup programs, components that load along with Windows, slowing down the boot process and grabbing valuable system resources....
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Speed up your PC with MAGIX PC Check & Tuning Free
Any user of Windows will be aware that it doesn’t take long for a once speedy computer to slow to a crawl, almost to the point of becoming unusable. MAGIX PC Check & Tuning is a free tool that can...
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Windows 7 Boot Updater makes it easy to customize your boot animation and text
Customizing the Windows boot screen is something that Microsoft has never made easy. The fact that the images involved are hardcoded into system files is enough to put off all but the most seasoned of...
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Make your PC’s startup more efficient with Autoruns 11
The art of streamlining your PC’s startup to reclaim system resources and speed up boot times is an ancient one. Windows even comes with its own built-in tool – msconfig – for tweaking the system...
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Accelerate your PC’s startup time with Argus Boot Accelerator
Lengthy boot times must be one of the greatest irritations you can have with any PC. Not only can Windows take an age to load, but then the hard drive thrashing can continue for minutes, in some...
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Qemu Simple Boot can launch ISO images in a desktop window – no need to burn...
ISO images are a very convenient way to distribute software, but testing them is more of a hassle, especially if they’re bootable, as normally you’ll have to burn them to disc, first. But it may not...
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View and manage your PC’s startup programs with Startup Master
Every time Windows launches on the typical PC it’ll also fire off a host of other programs, extending boot time, gobbling up system resources and generally slowing you down. If you’re looking to...
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Make Windows 8 boot to the desktop with StartOnDesktop
Launch Windows 8 and the first change you’ll notice is that it boots to the new Start screen, rather than the desktop. And, perhaps more annoyingly if you prefer the more traditional environment,...
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List your PC’s starts and shutdown times with NirSoft’s TurnedOnTimesView
It’s only a couple of weeks since NirSoft’s last release, but the unstoppable freeware machine that is Nir Sofer has just announced another addition to his lineup, TurnedOnTimesView, a simple tool for...
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Troubleshoot application launch issues with WinPrefetchView
Prefetching is an excellent Windows technology which records the files loaded when an application starts, helping the system to optimise its launch time in future. Normally this all happens entirely in...
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Build multi-boot USB keys with WinSetupFromUSB
WinSetupFromUSB is a free tool which creates bootable USB keys from ISO images, perfect for anyone who wants a faster and more convenient way to launch PC boot discs. As you’ll guess from its name, the...
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Take control of your Windows startup programs with Autorun Organizer
Your PC’s taking an age to boot? It could be launching too many programs when Windows starts. There are plenty of freeware “startup manager” tools which claim they can help, but Autorun Organizer is...
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AVG AntiVirus Free 2015 debuts zero-day protection, redesigned user interface
AVG Technologies has updated its entire range of PC products, launching AVG AntiVirus Free 2015, AVG AntiVirus 2015, AVG Internet Security 2015 and AVG PC TuneUp 2015. After the relatively major...
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AOMEI PXE Boot Free: boot PCs from an image on your network
If your PC won’t start then you might try to recover the situation by booting from some other recovery environment: your Windows DVD, an antivirus disc, backup tool, whatever it might be. If you can’t...
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Easily fix PC boot problems with Boot Repair Disk
If your PC won’t boot properly then running Startup Repair from the Windows DVD will fix many common problems. But if you can’t find your disc, or you never had one, or you run Startup Repair and it...
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What’s really running on your PC? Part 1: Windows System Processes
PC too slow, possible malware infection, just not behaving as it should? Then you’ll probably launch Task Manager or something similar to figure out what’s going on. Sounds great, until you find 50 or...
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netboot.xyz boots PCs from an image on the web
If you’ve been managing computers for a few years then you’ve probably build up a library of supporting discs or USB keys. OS installers, antivirus rescue discs, backup tools, partition repair,...
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How to boot a USB key in VirtualBox
VirtualBox is an amazing virtualisation tool, ideal for all kinds of software testing situations – unless they involve booting from USB, where there’s no direct support at all. There’s a workaround...
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