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What I would do to fix Dr. A’s computer

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:19:48 +0000

I left my conversation with Dr. A nearly convinced he doesn’t really need a new computer. The local store is pitching him a new $700 Dell Inspiron with a 1 TB hard drive and 6 GB of RAM and a

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Speeding up a sluggish HP Mini 110

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 22:27:30 +0000

My mom’s HP Mini 110 Atom-based netbook (with the factory 16GB SSD) was hesitating, a lot. Frankly it was really frustrating to use–it would freeze up for minutes on end, for no good reason. It was so slow, calling it

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My first Windows 7 build

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:34:28 +0000

I rebuilt a friend’s Windows 7 system this week. The system includes a 30 GB SSD to boot from, and a RAID 1 mirror of 1 TB drives for storage. Aside from the two 1 TB drives, it’s basically a

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Psst… Wanna compete with Best Buy?

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:32:00 +0000

Best Bait-n-Switch is offering a service where they'll remove crapware from a PC for 30 bucks.

You can offer to do the same thing for 30 bucks, but do a better job. Here's how.

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Registry optimization

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:08:33 +0000

I gave my Windows 2000 system a little tuneup today. Nothing major, but it feels peppier now, and didn't take all that long to do. Nor did it require any expensive utilities.

This works with Windows 2000, XP, NT4, and Vista. For Windows 9x advice, you'll have to turn to an old critically acclaimed book written by someone you've never heard of.

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The best defragmenter for Windows NT, 2000, XP and Vista

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:29:20 +0000

Want Diskeeper's features without ponying up 50 bucks?

Sorry, I can't help you. The combination of JKDefrag, Scandefrag, and Pagedefrag is better and it's free.

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Ways to keep your NT/2K/XP system defragmented

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 02:06:25 +0000

Defragmenting on a regular basis isn't the only thing to overall system performance, but it's a major factor. Fortunately there are some free tools that do a good job of it. Unfortunately they don't come with Windows.

Here's how to automatically defragment your system and your registry.

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