I have yet to see that defrag makes any measurable difference on 99% of disks (i.e. those which are not worst case fragmented). In any case...
Bing for the cool images Google for instant search New tab page in IE9/Chrome/Firefox for frequently used sites I switch between all 3 on a...
Please don't pay any attention to Google release designations or version numbers! I sometimes think its a joke they play on us :) Many google...
You have no idea what you're talking about when it comes to OS's. Microsoft actually care about backwards compatibility and go to great lengths to...
I'm currently using a very simple solution which is not as sophisticated as the others here - - OS is on C:\ partition, all user profile folders...
As usual, look to Google for the answer. No one has ever felt the need to block gmail/google's unobtrusive text ads off to the right where they...
I don't mind the startup times. FF is the only browser I use because of the addons. To me an ideal webbrowser would use WebKit (not Gecko), have...
For me a browser still has to feel fast and light when I have 50 tabs and 10 addons loaded. A single tab with no addons is no longer useful by...
I am giving a new Dell laptop to a family member and have a very simple requirement. It has 2 partitions, C and D, with new install of Win7 on C,...
This is the kind of thing that makes me wary of recommending paid products to friends and family who live in other countries and not tech savvy....
Since you asked what pros use, a lot of them depend on Ghost, ever since the days that it had to be run from a dos disk. Thati is no needed...
I've yet to see a study/report that proves defragmentation has a measureable effect over time in real world usage, across a large variety of...
I have a few questions about CTM :- - does it use a separate partition (1 or many?) and is this visible under Disk Management? - Has anyone used...
Don't see any attachments. I'm very happy with xplorer2, you might want to contact its developer, he's very responsive. (edit - it seems we both...
Fact - registry entries have no impact on performance, or in fact anything else. Thus there is no benefit to cleaners, and they can only cause...
Good question, I was looking for the exact same thing and learnt about 2 new products (Forcefield and time machine). Funnily enough both are named...
Oh well, I guess the love affair is over. I just read this review - http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?topic=20461.0 I will not be...
It must be hard as a maker of optimization software. First of all a lot of this is simply not needed as Windows is self tuning to a large extent....
I never said Microsoft doesn't have an image problem - of course they do. Years of Apple ads, Vista being blasted by every mag, the DOJ+EU losses,...
Looks like its supplied by Samsung with their drives - http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/support/utilities/Support_SecretZone.html I'd...
Isn't this simple to test? I'm sure there are sample sites which have malware that executes as the browser loads the page - test this against MSE...
Articles like this show just how clueless the mainstream press is. And hungry for page views, and the best way to do that is to write an article...
That was a pretty decent article. Its not so much aboput tweaking Windows 7 but doing general maintainence like deleting temp files, startup...
Detection from local drives and shares would depend on the realtime scanner which won't be 100% for any program. I'm more concerned with browser...
How come nobody has mentioned AdMuncher yet? IMO its one of the best and works with IE, firefox many other apps.
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