Monthly Archives: May 2010

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What if I told you that there was one secret little thing that you could do that would reduce the amount of wasted time on your computer? Well there is. The only problem is that is very obvious – so obvious that its almost always over looked. Well, there really is more than just one thing you can do. Its to first learn some of the more commonly used shortcuts that are found on windows and to also learn how to type faster. Sounds really obvious huh? Well guess what, I have spent a lot of time working with lots of different people that are in all sorts of different industries and typing really slow and not knowing even just a few of the commonly used shortcuts that are used in windows tends to be one of the biggest wastes of time.

I take it that you are interested in making your slow computer faster. I’ll let you in on a little secret: tune your virtual memory. Your computer has something called a hard drive which it uses to store files on and something called your RAM (Random Access Memory) that it uses to work with files and programs temporarily. When your computer turns off, the information that was on the hard drive will still be there when you turn it back on, but the information on your RAM will be gone. That’s why it’s a temporary working place.

Could it really be true that your computers look might be the real reason why it runs slow? Yes, and no. Its part of the reason you have a slow computer, well actually it’s a small part of the reason your computer runs slow. Your computer runs slow because of all of the junk that builds up on it, but Windows has tuned its operating system to look good so that it will have user appeal.

Windows Vista has many different effects and features that makes it very unique. The only problem is that the same features that makes it so unique are the same things that are usually robbing it of resources – resources that you could be using to get more done in less time. For the purpose of this article I’m going to show you two ways to make your Windows Vista perform a bit faster but the down side to this is that you are going to have to sacrifice some of Vista’s looks to get a resource boost. For the most part, the average user has absolutely no use for any of Vista’s fancy looks so you should be just fine when you remove them.