Small Business Technology Blog

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Speedup your windows PC by reducing the startup programs

Yesterdays short article on cleaning your tempfiles to speed up your computer prompted SO much interest I've decided to expand on it by mentioned the #2 FREE thing you can do to improve performance on your computer, clean up that pesky windows startup programs list.

With so many programs and applications running in your Windows background, you can no
longer be sure of what is necesary and what's just in the way. With so many of these programs running as soon as you start your computer they not only add to your startup time, they also hog valuable system resources slowing down your PC.

Startup Lite is a great little program that lets you identify and manage the programs in your Windows startup. quickly identifying the unnecesary startup programs and allowing you to erase them without providing the level of control that could potentially be harmful (by allowing you to remove critical windows components)

Did I mention it was FREE?

http://www.malwarebytes.org/startuplite.php

If tuning up your own computer either isn't in your time budget OR you're not getting the performance out of the PC you hoped even after these short tips, pick up the phone and call, and remember...

For a Proactive Approach, Call The Technology Coach!

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